Industrial forestry doesn't know how to deal with uncertainty in nature. Ecoforestry, however, actually seeks to create a framework large enough to include industrial forestry as a legitimate part, though only a part. Ecoforestry is backed by a holistic cosmology that includes such ordering principles as change, organism, field, continuity, historicity, indeterminacy, novelty, and intrinsic value. Ecoforestry seeks to consider the whole framework of the forest. The goal is sustainability, caring for trees so that both trees and people can be there indefinitely, and not only trees, but all the species of a forest system.
Some species become so adapted that they die when their tree dies or disappears.
Favoring ecological economics, ecoforestry presumes constraints on growth. It favors restoration forestry and selection logging, that is, reforestation and harvesting without clearcutting. That the Wise Use movement considers ecoforestry too preservationist and Greenpeace sees it as not preservationist enough points to its idea of integrated management as a middle way. Optimum diversity appears in the latter. Disclaimer and Privacy Policy .