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Old Growth in a New World: A Pacific Northwest Icon Reexamined
Island Press
Island Press
Old-growth forests represent a lofty ideal as much as an ecosystem—an icon of unspoiled nature, ecological stability, and pristine habitat. These iconic notions have actively altered the way society relates to old-growth forests, catalyzing major...
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Growing Plantation Forests
P.W. West
Springer
Springer
Plantation forests are grown to supply wood and to provide environmental benefits, such as waste disposal, rehabilitation of degraded sites, enhancement of regional biodiversity and reduction of logging in native forests. In a highly readable...
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Tending Fire: Coping With America's Wildland Fires
Stephen Pyne
Island Press
Island Press
The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And...
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Urban Forest Landscapes: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives
University of Washington Press
University of Washington Press
The goal of urban forestry is to understand the ecological, institutional, and human issues at work in the urban landscape. Urban forestry is a comparatively new field within the academic discipline of forestry, and is closely allied to several...
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The U.S. Forest Service: A History
Harold K. Steen
University of Washington Press
University of Washington Press
The U.S. Forest Service celebrates its centennial in 2005. With a new preface by the author, this edition of Harold K. Steen's classic history (originally published in 1976) provides a broad perspective on the Service's administrative and policy...
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Wild Foresting: Practicing Nature's Wisdom
Alan Drengson, Duncan Taylor
New Society Publishers
New Society Publishers
There is an emerging revolution in wild forest relationships. Wild foresting has evolved from ecoforestry, going far beyond merely having a minimum impact on the world, to sustaining and promoting forest health, along with biological and cultural...
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