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People, Forests, and Change

Lessons from the Pacific Northwest

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  • © 2017
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Editors:
  1. Deanne H. Olson

    1. Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, USA

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  2. Beatrice Horne

    1. Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, USA

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  • Offers pioneering thinking on managing forests for both ecological health and sustainable human communities

  • Provides an synthesis of innovative research on human-forest ecosystems out of the Pacific Northwest

  • Contains photos, charts, and a color insert illustrate important concepts.

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Framework for Moist Temperate Forest Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Introduction: The Human-Forest Ecosystem

      • Deanna H. Olson, Beatrice Van Horne, Bernard T. Bormann, Paul D. Anderson, Richard W. Haynes
      Pages 3-15

    3. Setting the Stage: Vegetation Ecology and Dynamics

      • Jerry F. Franklin, Thomas A. Spies, Frederick J. Swanson
      Pages 16-32

    4. People and Forest Plants

      • Susan Stevens Hummel, Jane E. Smith
      Pages 33-46

    5. Wood-Products Markets, Communities, and Regional Economies

      • Richard W. Haynes, Claire A. Montgomery, Susan J. Alexander
      Pages 47-61

    6. An Ecosystem Services Framework

      • Dale J. Blahna, Stanley T. Asah, Robert L. Deal
      Pages 62-75

  3. Dynamic Systems as a New Paradigm

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-78
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    2. Ecosystem Services with Diverse Forest Landowners

      • Robert L. Deal, Paul E. Hennon, David V. D’Amore, Raymond J. Davis, Jane E. Smith, Eini C. Lowell
      Pages 79-90

    3. Patterns of Change across the Forested Landscape

      • Raymond J. Davis, Andrew N. Gray, John B. Kim, Warren B. Cohen
      Pages 91-101

    4. Learning to Learn: The Best Available Science of Adaptive Management

      • Bernard T. Bormann, Byron K. Williams, Teodora Minkova
      Pages 102-115

    5. The Emergence of Watershed and Forest Collaboratives

      • Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Lee K. Cerveny, Bernard T. Bormann, Jane E. Smith, Stanley T. Asah, A. Paige Fischer
      Pages 116-130

  4. Science-Based Management: How Has New Science Shaped Our Thinking?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-132
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    2. Silviculture for Diverse Objectives

      • Paul D. Anderson, Klaus J. Puettmann
      Pages 133-148

    3. Long-Term Forest Productivity

      • Bernard T. Bormann, Steven S. Perakis, Robyn L. Darbyshire, Jeff Hatten
      Pages 149-160

    4. Managing Carbon in the Forest Sector

      • Mark E. Harmon, John L. Campbell
      Pages 161-173

    5. Biodiversity

      • Deanna H. Olson, Brooke E. Penaluna, Bruce G. Marcot, Martin G. Raphael, Keith B. Aubry
      Pages 174-190

    6. Aquatic-Riparian Systems

      • Deanna H. Olson, Sherri L. Johnson, Paul D. Anderson, Brooke E. Penaluna, Jason B. Dunham
      Pages 191-206

    7. Watersheds and Landscapes

      • Gordon H. Reeves, Thomas A. Spies
      Pages 207-222

  5. Alternative Futures for Coniferous Forests

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-224
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About this book

In this volume, the editors have assembled an expert panel of social and forest scientists to consider the nature of forests in flux and how to best balance the needs of forests and the rural communities closely tied to them. The book considers the temperate moist-coniferous forests of the US Pacific Northwest, but many of the concepts apply broadly to challenges in forest management in other regions and countries. In the US northwest, forest ecosystem management has been underway for two decades, and key lessons are emerging. The text is divided into four parts that set the stage for forests and rural forest economies, describe dynamic forest systems at work, consider new science in forest ecology and management, and ponder the future for these coniferous forests under different scenarios.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, USA

    Deanne H. Olson, Beatrice Horne

About the editors

Deanna H. Olson is a research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station in Corvallis, Oregon. Dede’s work as an ecologist is devoted to sustainability of our natural heritage. Her work has encompassed every vertebrate class (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals), with a focus on amphibians. Her bachelor’s degree at University of California–San Diego intersected with the first Conservation Biology Conference there in 1978, helping to build the foundation for her passion for biodiversity conservation. In 1981, her PhD from the Department of Zoology at Oregon State University brought her to the Pacific Northwest, with its natural grandeur from the sea to the forests, mountains, and high deserts. In addition to her duties with the PNWRS, she also serves as courtesy faculty at Oregon State University and associate editor for Herpetological Review, and is past president of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology and past co-chair of Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. 

Beatrice Van Horne is director of the USDA Pacific Northwest Climate Hub in Corvallis, Oregon. Bea has an interest in the processes within and among species that manifest as visible ecological communities. Beginning with PhD research on the effects of clearcut logging on small mammal populations in southeast Alaska, her work has sought to untangle the factors driving small mammal, ground squirrel, and bird populations. After 17 years as a professor of biology at Colorado State University, she spent 10 years in the Washington, DC area serving in research program leadership with the US Forest Service and the US Geological Survey. For the past five years, she has lived in Corvallis, where she has been a research manager for the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. 

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