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In recent years, conflicts between ecological conservation and economic growth forced a reassessment of the motivations and goals of wildlife and forestry management. Focus shifted from game and commodity management to biodiversity conservation and ecological forestry. Previously separate fields such as forestry, biology, botany, and zoology merged into a common framework known as conservation biology and resource professionals began to approach natural resource problems in an interdisciplinary light.

Wildlife Habitat Management: Concepts and Applications in Forestry presents anintegrated reference combining silvicultural and forest planning principles with principles of habitat ecology and conservation biology. With extensive references and case studies drawn from real situations, this book begins with general concepts such as habitat selection, forest composition, influences on habitat patterns, and the dynamics of disturbance ecology. It considers management approaches for specific habitats including even-aged and uneven-aged systems, riparian areas, and dead wood and highlights those approaches that will conserve and manage biodiversity. The author discusses assessment and prioritization policies, monitoring techniques, and ethical and legal issues that can have worldwide impact. Detailed appendices provide a glossary, scientific names, and tools for measuring and interpreting habitat elements. Writing in a species-specific manner, the author emphasizes the need to consider the potential effects of management decisions on biodiversity conservation and maintains a holistic approach throughout the book.

Drawing from the author’s more than 30 years working and teaching in natural resources conservation, Wildlife Habitat Management: Concepts and Applications in Forestry provides a synopsis of current preservation techniques and establishes a common body of knowledge from which to approach the conservation of biodiversity in the future. ... Read more

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This book is great for anyone intrested in wildlife management through a forestry perspective. So this book would also be great for a forester needing background information on habitat elements need for wildlife. It was writen really well and I learned so much from reading this book. I will always have this book with me as I finish school and continue to have it all through my career as a wildlife biologist. ... Read more

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Over the past decade, a sea change has occurred in the field of forestry. A vastly increased understanding of how ecological systems function has transformed the science from one focused on simplifying systems, producing wood, and managing at the stand-level to one concerned with understanding and managing complexity, providing a wide range of ecological goods and services, and managing across broad landscapes.

Creating a Forestry for the Twenty-first Century is an authoritative and multidisciplinary examination of the current state of forestry and its relation to the emergent field of ecosystem management. Drawing upon the expertise of top professionals in the field, it provides an up-to-date synthesis of principles of ecosystem management and their implications for forest policy. Leading scientists, including Malcolm Hunter, Jr., Bruce G. Marcot, James K. Agee, Thomas R. Crow, Robert J. Naiman, John C. Gordon, R.W. Behan, Steven L. Yaffee, and many others examine topics that are central to the future of forestry:

• new understandings of ecological processes and principles, from stand structure and function to disturbance processes and the movement of organisms across landscapes
• challenges to long-held assumptions: the rationale for clearcutting, the wisdom of short rotations, the exclusion of fire
• traditional tools in light of expanded goals for forest landscapes
• managing at larger spatial scales, including practical information and ideas for managing large landscapes over long time periods
• the economic, organizational, and political issues that are critical to implementing successful ecosystem management and developing institutions to transform knowledge into action

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Excellent introduction to modern sustainable forestry
This book is very useful for foresters and ecologists working to find a balance between timber production and maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in managed forests.

TO bad service
The worst experience I have ever had... I am so surpised how I was asked to write review...
TONY SADIKU

Bought this as a textbook and barely used it.
I bought this for a class I was taking and it is not interesting enough to buy unless you have to, like me. ... Read more

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Common Sense Forestry relates thirty years’ experience of an environmentally conscious woodland owner. Much of the book is devoted to starting a forest and how to maintain it. It answers such questions as: What seedlings to buy? Should your forest be monoculture or a mixed forest? What is the payback for planting and maintaining a forest? Is seeding a good way to start a forest? What kind of seeds work best? Does it pay to hire a consultant? What should he/she do for you? Does it pay to do much maintenance in your forest? How should I prune? Is timberland improvement worthwhile? How, when and whether to thin? How to herbicide and when? Can the damage done to nature by chemicals be justified by the benefits to your seedlings? What are the economics of woodland ownership?

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A fascinating read for any tree lover
This insightful book is not only an inspiration for those lucky enough to already own woodlands, but for anyone interested in trees and conservation. I wanted to find a "Forestry 101" course which reflected progressive environmental principles - and this is certainly it. Morsbach's writing style is engaging. Even where he repeats himself he makes the information consistently fascinating. And he doesn't shrink from presenting views which are opposed to his. The illustrations are wonderful and the glossary at the end invaluable. Because I live in Austria - where the "Dauerwald" principle described by Morsbach is well established - his holistic international approach was especially appealing.

Common Sense Forestry offers great insight
If you are at all interested in Forestry and planting and growing trees, then this is definitely the book for you. To me this has become my forestry bible. There are so many great ideas, and interesting stories throughout the entire book. When I got done reading it the first time I was disappointed that I had already finished it, so I had to read it again. And believe it or not it was good the second time because it was able to bring me back to the woods on a cold winter's night, and that is always a great place to be.

common sense forestry
i was very pleased with this book, disregard my review of wildlife and woodlot managment. this is the one to buy, i confused the two books. this one is entertaining and informative for the novice. good prospective for the small woodlot owner

Very good book
This book was excellent and contained alot of common sense advice. I only deducted a star because it was more applicable to the East Coast, while I live on the West. Really good material, and I liked its balanced approach to the use of "non-Green" methods.

The Tree That Made My Copy
. . . gave its life for a good cause.

This is the most important book on my shelves as I "manage" my 75 Virginia woodland acres.

I like Morsbach's maverick approach to forestry, in particular the emphasis he places on aesthetic and environmental considerations.Once again, the committed, thoughtful individual trumps a whole barrel full of clipboard-carrying "experts."

The book contains multiple grammatical errors that are slightly distracting to me, a former editor, but otherwise entirely trivial.

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The goal of Kangas, Kangas and Kurttila's Decision Support for Forest Management is to provide students and researchers with a toolbox of methods for approaching the different planning situations that may arise in practice. It draws together a wide range of methods used in planning forest management regimes and presents a systematic overview of current methodological approaches.

While earlier books concerning forest planning have tended to focus on linear programming, economic aspects, or specific multi-criteria decision aid tools, this book provides a much broader range of tools to meet a variety of planning situations. The methods themselves cover a range of decision situations – from cases involving single decision makers, through group decision making, to participatory planning. They include traditional decision support tools, from optimization to utility functions, as well as methods that are just gaining ground in forest planning – such as problem structuring methods and social choice theory.

Including examples which illustrate the application of each technique to specific management planning problems, the book offers an invaluable resource for both researchers and advanced students specializing in management and planning issues relating to forestry.

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This book is a textbook for Urban/Community Forestry courses and a handbook for Shade Tree Commissions, tree wardens, State and National Forestry Services, and professional societies. It is the most complete text in this field because it addresses both culture and management, and the chapters have been written by experts who are active practitioners. The book provides observations and examples relevant to every urban center in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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Finally, reliable Urban Forestry Information for the NE
This is an excellent review of Urban Forestry practices in general and certainly the permier book for UF in the northeast!Topics are up-to-date and efficiently covered.Contributing editors are some of the top people in the field of Arboricultue/Urban Foresty.Most chapters have excellent examples/visuals and references.A must have for anyone concerned about trees the the urban environment. Cost is steep ... let's hope for a soft-cover edition! ... Read more

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This first edition of GIS Applications in Forestry and Natural Resource Management is intended for introductory courses in Geographic Information Systems or computer applications in forestry and natural resource management.The emphasis of the book is on the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in natural resource management, or GIS applications.We provide detailed coverage of GIS operations such as querying, buffering, clipping, and overlay analysis (and others), as well as background information on the history of GIS, database creation, editing, and acquisition, and map development.The applications provided can be extended to any region of the World, although the primary emphasis is North America, as portrayed by alternative management scenarios. ... Read more

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Much of the world's forested land is dominated by mixed-speciesstands. Understanding the complex structure and dynamics of thesemixtures is a necessary step in the process of formulating appropriatesilvicultural systems for their management. David M. Smith, ProfessorEmeritus of Silviculture at Yale University, has devoted much of hiscareer to the study of the structure, development, and silviculturaltreatment of these kinds of stands. This volume is presented byProfessor Smith's collegues to honor the contributions he has made tothe field. It contains both reviews of past work and results ofcurrent studies of mixed stands: topics range from analysis of forestdynamics in unmanaged stands to studies of silvicultural systemsapplied to mixtures, with examples drawn from boreal, temperate, andtropical regions. Much of the work stresses the importance ofunderstanding the characteristic growth patterns of individual specieswithin mixed stands, and how species interactions shape developmentalpatterns.
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The prime objective in forestry is to grow trees to produce timber, whatever the secondary objectives may be. The forest manager has to try to produce as much timber as possible, as quickly and economically as possible, within the various constraints imposed. To do this, he or she has to make decisions. In forestry, making the right decisions is even more important than in most other enterprises because of the long time-scale involved. The manager may not even live long enough to see the full results of his decisions. This book has been fully revised and updated for this second edition; and there are three new chapters concerning the use of computers in forestry management. ... Read more

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This book provides a case study into the complexity of tropicalhigh forest in Ghana. It documents the fact that national forestinventories for a long time yielded results that were eitherover-optimistic about the annual allowable cut or of little use atpolicy level. Yet, the most important reasons for deforestation andforest degradation stem from market and legislative failures. This hasresulted in major government and export revenues foregone, and thecapacity of the timber industry has become far higher than the annualallowable cut from forest reserves.
Trees outside forest reserves could fill the gap between the timberdemand and the capacity of forest reserves. However, sustainablemanagement of trees outside forest reserves requires clear incentivesfor the actual managers to do so. These managers are the rural people,who also own the land on which the trees grow. Yet, the state owns thetrees. Accordingly, the challenge is for the state to replace its oldexploitative attitude with a viable production-oriented approach tooff-reserve timber resources. ... Read more

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A global view of responsible forestry management

Sustainable Forestry Management and Wood Production in a Global Economy examines emerging issues and key strategies for sustaining wood production while maintaining other forest resources. Internationally recognized forestry experts explore a broad range of topics on sustainable forestry at the local and global levels in the United States and around the world. Issues discussed include the development of conservation reserves in Australia; the silviculture of Scottish forests; barriers and opportunities for management in Central America; monitoring sustainable forest management in the Pacific Rim region; tropical Eucalypt plantations; and recent research projects in Europe.

Achieving a constant flow of forest goods and services to meet the world's needs takes socially and environmentally acceptable solutions. Sustainable Forestry Management and Wood Production in a Global Economy offers a diverse set of learned viewpoints integrating production issues within sustainable forest management. Influences on decision making are discussed, such as pricing, replanting, and subsidies. Future challenges are examined in detail, pollution and climate change. This valuable resource is extensively referenced and includes useful tables and figures.

Topics in Sustainable Forestry Management and Wood Production in a Global Economy include:

sustainable forestry from different scales ranging from local to international
wood production and sustainable forest management in the United States
development of conservation reserves and changes in forest management policies in Australia
sustainability of European forests using examples from a variety of recent research projects
barriers and opportunities for sustainable forestry in Central America
silviculture and Scottish forestry at a time of change
monitoring sustainable forest management in the Pacific Rim region
increasing and sustaining productivity of tropical Eucalypt plantations over multiple rotations

Sustainable Forestry Management and Wood Production in a Global Economy is a valuable, timely resource for forestry researchers, forest landowners and managers, forest policy specialists, educators, and students of sustainable forest management.

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Almost half of all life on earth may exist in the world'sforest canopies. They may also play a vital role in maintaining theplanet's climate, yet they remain largely unexplored owing todifficulties of access. They are renowned for their great diversityand role in forest functioning, yet there are still great gaps in theunderstanding of this `last biological frontier'. This seminal bookshows how canopy science is now in a position to answer many of theoutstanding questions, among which are some of the most pressingenvironmental issues society is presently facing. It represents amajor summary of the current understanding of canopy ecology, and mapsa path forward into a greater understanding of tropical forest ecologyand management at a time when the very future of this ecosystem isthreatened by humanity's actions. ... Read more

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This book is a collection of papers presented at theinternational symposium on forest sector analysis held in Miyazaki,Japan, in 1998. It is structured with three themes: understandingglobal forest sector issues, discussing the contribution of modelingefforts to forest sector analysis, and discussing the role of Japaneseforest policy in a global sense. The most important features are thecase studies using various types of forest sector models. From amodeling perspective, changes in modeling efforts include more detailof spatial and multiple market levels, intergenerational welfareconcerns, non-market valuation issues, and explicit treatment of theuncertainty inherent in both the policy process and in the biophysicalsystems. The reader of this book will benefit not only frompresentation of forest utilization issues in different nations, butalso from the interrelatedness of the theory and application of forestsector modeling. ... Read more