Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century
Subtitle: The Science Of Ecosytem Management
Contributors: Jack Ward Thomas (Foreword); Malcolm Hunter (Contributor); James Lyons (Contributor); Frederick Cubbage (Contributor); Monica Turner (Contributor); Tom Crow (Contributor); Eric Gustafson (Contributor); Nancy Diaz (Contributor); Richard Haynes (Contributor); Jim Weigand (Contributor); Stan Gregory (Contributor); Frederick Swanson (Contributor); John Tappeiner (Contributor); Tom Schowalter (Contributor); Randy Molina (Contributor); John Sessions (Contributor); Kathryn A. Kohm (Editor); Jerry F. Franklin (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9781559633987
Subjects: Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques; Management of land & natural resources; Plant ecology; Life Sciences - Ecology; Forest Ecology; Science; Nature/Ecology; Northwest, Pacific; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Agriculture - Forestry; Technology / Agriculture / Forestry; Forest Management; Forests and forestry
First sentence: A student of forestry who picked up a textbook in the 1950s or 1960s would have found information on converting old-growth stands into even-aged regulated forests, preventing and suppressing fire, creating habitat for game species, or calculating optimum rotations.