The Northwest Forest Plan: origins, components, implementation experience, and suggestions for change.
Conserv Biol
; 20(2): 277-87, 2006 Apr.
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ABSTRACT
In the 1990s the federal forests in the Pacific Northwest underwent the largest shift in management focus since their creation, from providing a sustained yield of timber to conserving biodiversity, with an emphasis on endangered species. Triggered by a legal challenge to the federal protection strategy for the Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), this shift was facilitated by a sequence of science assessments that culminated in the development of the Northwest Forest Plan. The plan, adopted in 1994, called for an extensive system of late-successional and riparian reserves along with some timber harvest on the intervening lands under a set of controls and safeguards. It has proven more successful in stopping actions harmful to conservation of old-growth forests and aquatic systems than in achieving restoration goals and economic and social goals. We make three suggestions that will allow the plan to achieve its goals (1) recognize that the Northwest Forest Plan has evolved into an integrative conservation strategy, (2) conserve old-growth trees and forests wherever they occur and (3) manage federal forests as dynamic ecosystems.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Árboles
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Agricultura Forestal
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Ecosistema
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Conservación de los Recursos Naturales
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Sysrev_observational_studies
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Conserv Biol
Año:
2006
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos