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Thom McEvoy offers a primer of practical information on the management of forest lands with the goal of creating positive impacts on forest ecosystems. ... Read more

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Great overview of the Topic
McEvoy (Sen. Jeffords only wrote the foreward) presents an excellent introduction to the topic of sustainable forestry management.There are numerous external references for other sources on specific topics and sample contracts for woodlands owners.McEvoy's very easy and enjoyable writing style make the read quick and interesting.I am ordering his other book on the more technical side of contracting, taxes and estate planning. ... Read more

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In the Intermountain West, private, nonindustrial forests typically woodlots of 15 to 150 acres comprise as much as one-third of the forestland. Yet the owners of these forests commonly do not have forest management plans or the assistance they need to create such plans. Wild Logging slices through the "airy idealism of environmentalists and the steel-toe practicality of loggers" to teach methods of sustainable forest stewardship tailored to the West.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 your forest estate for the future. In engaging interviews owners of western forestland share their practical experiences. Technical sections cover such basics as how to develop a management plan, protect your property from wildfire, and write a timber harvest contract. ... Read more

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Too superfical for someone who actually owns land
This book is simply a collection of stories about different people and how they have managed their woodlands. There is no in-depth discussion of logging methods, and little about the economics of the business. The book seemed aimed at people who want a little hobby to go with their land.

Good Case Studies
This book provides interesting case studies about the management of (mostly) western forestland.The layout of the book is a little choppy (the sidebars interupt the arc of the greater storyline) but the insights into the personalities that are preserving our forestlands for future generations make it worthwhile.The book provides good introductory level information that is practical and useful for forest landowners.

An exceptionally thoughtful, balanced and practical guide
Wild Logging: A Guide To Environmentally And Economically Sustainable Forestry by forestry expert Bryan Foster is a useful and "user friendly" guide designed especially for the owners and managers of private forest lands. Wild Logging will enable the reader to craft a charter for private and corporate land-based forestry management that balances both harvesting interests and long-term ecological stability. Wild Logging is confidently recommended as being an exceptionally thoughtful, balanced and practical guide which is deftly written to provide a viable commercial alternative to the evils of clear-cutting or forest habitat destruction. ... Read more

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Ecological Forest Use Will Save the Forests and Jobs
The book is a valuable guide to how humans can live, work, and play in forest ecosystems in a way that does not destroy forests. The authors have compiled a wide range of articles most of which were originally publishedby the Ecoforestry Institute in their Journal of Ecoforestry. The articleslay the philosophical base upon which ecoforestry is premised. Ecologicalforestry seems to be the solution to many of the environmental problemsseen in forests and forestry today, a way to resolve many of the vexingissues of forestry. This book is a must read for all forest activists,foresters, academics, and people concerned with humans relationships withforests and nature. ... 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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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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A range of powerful forces-increasing demand for wood, uncertain and decreasing supply, increasing environmental pressures, and growing markets for environmentally certified wood-are changing the way the forest products industry conducts business. Forward-thinking firms have recognized the significance of these forces and are developing a new business model, one that will not only sustain revenues, but can ensure the long-term health of the forests upon which the industry depends.

The Business of Sustainable Forestry integrates and analyzes a series of twenty-one case studies of industry leaders carried out by the Sustainable Forestry Working Group. The motivations of the pioneering firms studied are as varied as their characteristics, yet each has made significant progress. The authors of this book argue that the operations that have been most succeessful are those that have integrated sustainable forestry principles and practices into their overall corporate strategy. The book:

• describes the forces that are pushing the industry toward sustainability
• presents an overview of the new techniques and technologies that are making sustainable forestry more feasible than ever
• presents in clear, engaging prose company profiles that demonstrate both the promise of and the obstacles to sustainable forest management
• gives a clear-eyed look at practices such as certification and their capacity to transform the forest products market
• provides conclusions drawn from the cases by Stuart Hart of the University of North Carolina and Matt Arnold of the Management Institute for Environment and Business
• offers a succinct set of lessons learne.

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In the context of forest sustainability, this book presents the issues related to both global climate change and conservation of biodiversity. It highlights four methodologies and shows how they contribute in overcoming the ecological challenges facing our world. The practical experience presented can be applied to the implementation of successful sustainable forestry policies. ... Read more

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Livelihoods against science
Time tested techniques are what are called as indigenous technical knowledge. This knowledge has been existing since ages and will continue to do so in the future, provided we, the present generation, spare time to care for it. The book unfolds a new way to look at things and at lives who are dependent on the forests for their livelihood. The concept of sustainability lies at the centre of the lives of forest communities in developing countries. This concept is an inescapable feature and a part of their culture of the lives of these people. The book gives valuable insight into these aspects and also gives a birds eye view of the scenario. ... Read more

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Get cutting-edge agroforestry research and data

Deforestation and the rampant use of fossil fuels are major contributors to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and are enormous influences on global warming. Agroforestry systems and tree plantations can help mitigate the resulting climate change and degradation of biodiversity and accelerating climate change. Environmental Services of Agroforestry Systems addresses these global concerns with an essential collection of presentations on biodiversity and climate change from the First World Congress in Agroforestry (Orlando, Florida, 2004). Respected experts discuss the latest research and data on how agroforestry systems can help solve environmental problems through carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation.

Years ago, agroforestry’s environmental benefits were mainly seen as being soil amelioration, erosion control, microclimate control, and the alleviation of the effects of drought in semiarid areas. Environmental Services of Agroforestry Systems goes beyond the regional considerations from years past to focus on the challenges of today’s most pressing global environmental concerns. The contributors describe the latest research and concepts in agroforestry systems, reforestation efforts, soils, vegetation, and agriculture while reviewing their economic aspects. Incentives for reforestation and agroforestry are explored in detail. Each chapter is carefully referenced and includes tables to clarify ideas and data.

Environmental Services of Agroforestry Systems addresses:

advantages of mixed-species plantations

tropical pasture and silvo-pastoral systems

tropical forest ecosystem management

research on the economic feasibility of various land-use systems

socio-economic considerations of coffee-growing ecosystems

agroforestry systems in Costa Rica

Environmental Services of Agroforestry Systems is essential reading for researchers and scientists, as well as professionals in agroforestry, forestry, soils, global change, climate change, and environmental studies, educators, and graduate and undergraduate students. ... Read more

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The Wealth of Forests
The book consists of a series of informative papers analyzing the currentforest regulatory scheme in British Columbia. The authors include academicsfrom the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria aswell as lawyers and business people. Their discussion is very analyticaland comprehensive.

This book is useful for anyone wanting to conduct anindepth study of forest regulation in British Columbia. ... Read more

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There has been an increased awareness of the need to establish and maintain small-scale forestry in tropical countries. This is due to concerns over continued deforestation, as well as the long-term environmental and economic resources these plantations can contribute if managed successfully. This book examines the constraints that limit the development of small-scale forestry in tropical environments and how they can be overcome.

The authors first explain the background to their research and demonstrate how, in contrast to industrial plantations, small-scale forestry has a wide variety of objectives including the production of fuel wood and non-wood products, the protection of watersheds and wildlife habitats, and carbon sequestration. They examine a broad range of socio-economic topics under the broad themes of policy development, market considerations, the evolution of small-scale forestry systems, and timber and non-wood benefits. In developing countries, for example, small-scale forestry is often regarded as a means of facilitating sustainable regional development. As a result of seven years extensive research they have developed a strong policy line, examining measures such as tax provisions and the targeting of subsidy and extension programs that can help promote the growth of non-industrial forest industries.

The authors present an integrated socio-economic analysis of the opportunities, impediments and challenges to small-scale forestry in the tropics. As such, this book will be required reading for scholars of environmental economics and science, land resource economists, and environmental, forestry and resource managers. ... Read more

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As natural forest disappear in tropical and subtropical countries, governments and forest industries are turning to plantations to meet the demand for timber. Taungya forestry has arisen to ameliorate conflicts between foresters who need land for forest plantations and shifting cultivators who need it to plant subsistence crops. Taungya is a system of forest plantations in which peasants are allowed to cultivate crops for the first few years between the seedlings of a forest plantations. Recent modifications to the taungya system include social and economic benefits to participating families.

This book describes the history and current practices of taungya, as it has developed in Southeast Asia since its introduction to Burma in the 1860s, and assesses its strengths and weaknesses. It suggests social, economic and technical modifications that may help make taungya a method for imporving the sustainability of forestry in developing countries (in Africa and South America as well as Asia), and will interest those concerned with tropical forestry, agroforestry systems and rural development. ... 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

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Understand the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the development of forest plantations—and the conservation involved

Controversy surrounds the question of how to best protect forests of high conservation value, while meeting the growing demands for wood and wood fiber-based products. Plantations and Protected Areas in Sustainable Forestry presents the views of a diverse group of conservationists and natural resource professionals who examine important social and economic as well as ecological aspects of the debate. The goal of sustainable forest management is kept at the forefront of the discussions, while alternative strategies to meet economic and social needs are explored in light of the need to conserve biological diversity and protect other important ecological services and environmental values in key forest areas.

For developed nations, there is an ethical responsibility to consider sensible development as well as environmental conservation. Plantations and Protected Areas in Sustainable Forestry discusses many of the prominent issues that are raised when considering intensively managed forests (plantations) and/or strict protection of high conservation value forests (protected areas) in the United States and elsewhere. These issues include: the role of plantations and their management; forest management certification to ensure sustainability; job creation from plantations, the effects of intensive forest management on society and the environment; and the protection of biodiversity. This book provides a solid foundation on which to form a consensus that addresses the needs of economics and society as well as forest conservation.

Topics in Plantations and Protected Areas in Sustainable Forestry include:

the future of forest plantations

forest management certification

community benefits derived from intensively managed industrial roundwood plantations

the extent to which intensive forest management practices on plantations prevent degradation of natural forests

positive and negative impacts of plantations on environmental and social values

alternative approaches for investment in wood production

global policy perspectives on intensive forest production

global strategies for biodiversity conservationPlantations and Protected Areas in Sustainable Forestry provides a diversity of perspectives on one of today’s most important developments in international forest policy and international trade in the forest sector. It is intended to contribute to better-informed decision-making, and is an important book for policymakers, forest resource management professionals, and business leaders working to develop practical and effective strategies for sustainable forest management. ... Read more

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This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date reference on the science, mechanism, methodology, and application of allelopathy. The objective of this practical reference is to report on the latest advances by inviting leading scientists to contribute in specific fields. The volume is organized under three major subsections: History of allelopathy, Allelochemicals, allelopathic mechanisms, and bioassays, and Application of allelopathy in agriculture and forestry.

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Bioenergy from Sustainable Forestry synthesizes information needed to design or implement sustainable forest management systems for production of biomass for energy in conjunction with other forest products. It is organized around the criteria for sustainable forest management: productivity, environment, social issues, economics, and legal and institutional framework. More than 25 international experts from 10 countries have brought together available ecological, physical, operational, social and economic information and identified gaps in knowledge related to biomass production and harvesting systems. This is the first time that such comprehensive information has been brought together under one cover, using an integrated, holistic approach. Guiding principles and state of the art knowledge are emphasized. The book will enable forest resource managers and planners to evaluate the ability of specific forest regions to sustainably meet bioenergy production demands. ... Read more

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Realizing that society, economics and science are today challenged to devise a new theoretical framework for forestry Sustainable Forestry presents a unique vision of forestry for the next century. In this important new book Chris Maser covers the ecological characteristics of forests; asking - what makes up a forest? He discusses the science and technology of forestry and the uncertainties we face in our attempts to manage forests throughout the world.Sustainable Forestry also deals with current management problems within the forestry profession, beginning with university training and ending withdysfunction in land management agencies. Proposals for change are given, covering in detail what that means, how it's effected and how it's perceived. Important topics such as forest planning, establishing an environmental vision and resolving conflicts are also discussed. Maser concludes with the possibilities for sustainable forestry into the twenty-first century, specifically discussing adaptive ecosystem management. ... Read more

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The increasing awareness and concern of people, researchers anddecision makers for the maintenance and enhancement of goods andservices provided by forest ecosystems significantly widened the scopeof information needs for sustainable forest management on thetask-specific, integrative and strategic level. Forest resourceassessments have to provide reliable, harmonized, politicallyrelevant, cost-efficient and intuitively visible information on themultiple functions of forests in the form of statistics, georeferenceddata and thematic cartography. In this perspective, the need ofreviewing and discussing improvements of forest inventory andmonitoring approaches is acknowledged to cope with assessment andanalysis tools required for the full understanding of forestecosystems, from local to global scales. Only a limited amount ofinformation can be provided by adding a set of new attributes to thelist of attributes commonly used in assessing the productive functionof forests and utilizing traditional survey designs. The diversity ofinformation needs that have to be satisfied by current forest resourceassessments require the adoption of new survey approaches and theextension of assessment frames from forests to landscapes. This isdeemed distinctively true for the issues related to sustainable forestmanagement and biodiversity monitoring. Within this framework, themajor purpose of this volume of Kluwer`s "Forestry Science Series" isto give readers hands-on experiences about inventory and monitoringproblems and potential by reviewing a selection of approaches, methodsand tools for multi-resource forest surveys, with special reference toremote sensing, statistical sampling and spatial analyses.
The book is intended for researchers and practitioners in the field offorest and environmental planning, environmental monitoring andenvironmental policies. ... Read more

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Agroforestry reserach and development in Australia has beenlargely fragmented and many of the research results have never beenpublished and are unknown. The purpose of this volume is tocomprehensively review all of the research that has taken place in thefield of agroforestry in Australia, including previously unpublishedresults, providing readers with the latest technical and economicinformation about using trees in agriculture for the control ofsalinity and erosion, for shelter and shade, and for the production oftimber, fodder and minor forest products. The book providesinformation concerning planted trees within all of these categoriesand includes special review of the management of native vegetation onfarms. These papers also examine research needs where appropriate.
This book stems from the National Australian Conference on 'The Roleof Trees in Sustainable Agriculture' which took place in Albury,Victoria, Australia in October, 1991. Each national review paper isbased upon a summary of six or more state review research anddevelopment papers, prepared specifically for the national conference.The book thus provides readers with a comprehensive overview ofagroforestry rsearch in Australia, which is introduced and summarisedin the first chapter.
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In this book is summarized those management principles that should be valid in areas where forests continuously are used for production, where biodiversity aspects are important as well as economy and productivity, and where demands on soil status and water quality are set. Especially the very long-term aspects are emphasized, and it is shown how system model thinking is used to reach the goals. Biogeochemical aspects are put forward as they are very important in areas on poor bedrock with acid soils. Forest vitality and stress on trees are treated, as well as the importance of wildlife and their effects of browsing. The balance between social and recreational demands from the society and the economical needs of the landowner is of great concern. Experiences from a special area in South Sweden are presented. ... Read more