Compatible Forest Management

Public debate has stimulated interest in finding greater compatibility among forest management regimes. The debate has often portrayed management choices as tradeoffs between biophysical and socioeconomic components of ecosystems. Here we focus on specific management strategies and emphasize broad goals such as biodiversity, wood production and habitat conservation while maintaining other values from forestlands desired by the public. We examine the following proposition: __Commodity production (timber, nontimber forest products)____and the other forest values (biodiversity, fish and wildlife habitat)____can be simultaneously produced from the same area in a socially____acceptable manner.__ Based on recent research in the Pacific Northwest, we show there are alternatives for managing forest ecosystems that avoid the divisive arena of 'either-or' choices. Much of the work discussed in this book addresses two aspects of the compatibility issue. First, how are various forest management practices related to an array of associated goods and services? Second, how do different approaches to forest management affect relatively large and complex ecosystems? Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Compatible Forest Management: Background and Context....Pages 3-32 Front Matter....Pages 33-34 The Production Possibilities Approach to Understanding and Modeling Compatibility....Pages 35-53 Compatible Management of Red Alder-Conifer Ecosystems in Southeastern Alaska....Pages 55-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-84 Managing Structural and Compositional Diversity with Silviculture....Pages 85-119 Experimental Approaches to Joint Forest Production....Pages 121-143 Modeling Stand Growth and Management....Pages 145-175 Modeling Landscape Management....Pages 177-207 Front Matter....Pages 209-210 The Importance of Scale in Assessing the Compatibility of Forest Commodities and Biodiversity....Pages 211-235 Landscape Management: Diversity of Approaches and Points of Comparison....Pages 237-266 Contemporary Management Regimes in the Pacific Northwest: Balancing Biophysical and Economic Concerns....Pages 267-296 Front Matter....Pages 297-298 Managing for Wood Quality....Pages 299-336 Compatible Management of Understory Forest Resources and Timber....Pages 337-381 Managing Access to Nontimber Forest Products....Pages 383-400 Managing For Wildlife: A Key Component for Social Acceptance of Compatible Forest Management....Pages 401-425 Front Matter....Pages 427-428 Social Values and Compatible Forest Management....Pages 429-452 Fostering Compatible Forest Resource Management: The Conditional Nature of Social Acceptability....Pages 453-480 Front Matter....Pages 481-481 The Search for Compatibility: What Have We Learned?....Pages 483-517 Public debate has stimulated interest in finding greater compatibility among forest management regimes. The debate has often portrayed management choices as tradeoffs between biophysical and socioeconomic components of ecosystems. Here we focus on specific management strategies and emphasize broad goals such as biodiversity, wood production and habitat conservation while maintaining other values from forestlands desired by the public. We examine the following proposition: Commodity production (timber, nontimber forest products) and the other forest values (biodiversity, fish and wildlife habitat) can be simultaneously produced from the same area in a socially acceptable manner. Based on recent research in the Pacific Northwest, we show there are alternatives for managing forest ecosystems that avoid the divisive arena of 'either-or' choices. Much of the work discussed in this book addresses two aspects of the compatibility issue. First, how are various forest management practices related to an array of associated goods and services? Second, how do different approaches to forest management affect relatively large and complex ecosystems?