Elers Koch was a groundbreaking silviculturist, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter in the early days of the United States Forest Service. Working as one of "Gifford Pinchot's young men, " he helped to establish the boundaries of most of our national forests in the West, designed new fire-control strategies and equipment, and ...
Drawing upon the expertise of top professionals in the field, this book is an authoritative and multidisciplinary examination of the current state of forestry and its relation to the emergent field of ecosystem management. It provides an up-to-date synthesis of principles of ecosystem management and their implications for forest policy. Features a ...
Wild Logging covers the rudiments of forest management: inventorying your forest and establishing management goals; developing appropriate timber-harvesting methods and hiring a logger to implement them; and managing the forest estate for the future. In engaging interviews, owners of western forestland share their experiences of which practices ...
The 1982 edition of this book was praised as "surely the finest book ever written about a single species, " and this new edition, with 85 percent new material, is certainly a worthy successor. Thirty-eight contributors from the United States and Canada combine an extraordinary amount of research data, management experience, and professional ...
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J. Louise Parker, Jack Ward Thomas, United States. Forest Service, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Or.) Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Portland, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment...
When the University of Arizona announced plans to build observatories on Mt. Graham, atop the PinaleAo Mountains, the construction was seen as a potential threat to an isolated species found only on this sky island. The Mt. Graham red squirrel was declared aendangereda by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Legal action required the university to ...
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