Research Catalog

Title

Wild forests conservation biology and public policy / William S. Alverson, Walter Kuhlmann, Donald M. Waller ; foreword by Jared Diamond.

Author

Alverson, William Surprison

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c1994.

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Additional Authors

• Kuhlmann, Walter
• Waller, Donald M.

Description

xxiii, 300 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Biodiversity conservation > United States
• Forest biodiversity conservation > United States
• Forest conservation > United States
• Forest ecology > United States
• Forest management > United States
• Forest policy > United States
• Forest reserves > United States > Management
• United States. Forest Service

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references p. (259-286) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Jared Diamond -- pt. I. Whence Biodiversity? 1. Forests Then and Now. 2. Shadows in the Forest. 3. The Myth of Heart's Content -- pt. II. Ecological Mechanisms and Biotic Resources. 4. Internal Affairs: Patch and Disturbance Dynamics. 5. From Hero to Villain: Edge Effects. 6. Hazards of Fragmentation: Area and Isolation Effects. 7. Tracking Diversity: Biological Inventory, Research, and Monitoring -- pt. III. Approaches to Forest Management. 8. The Evolution of Forest Management. 9. Multiple Use on National Forest Lands. 10. What's New in Forest Management? 11. Zoning for Diversity -- pt. IV. Toward a New Diversity Policy (and Twenty-First Century Old Growth). 12. Sources of a New Diversity Policy for the National Forests. 13. Case History: The Wisconsin National Forests. 14. Dominant-Use Zoning and Wildlands: Forestry for the Twenty-First Century.

ISBN

• 1559631872 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 1559631880 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^94008950^

OCLC

30079266

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Harvard Library