The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan
The Wild Science of Saving Old Growth Ecosystems
$127.09
- Paperback
472 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2023
Summary
Tree sitters. Logger protests. Dying timber towns. An iconic species on the brink. The Timber Wars consumed the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early 1990s and led political leaders to ask scientists for a solution. The Northwest Forest Plan was the result.
For most of the twentieth century, the central theme of federal forest management in the Pacific Northwest had been logging old-growth forests to provide a sustained yield of timber. During the 1970s and 1980s, however, a s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780870712241 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0870712241 |
| Author: | K. Norman Johnson, Jerry F. Franklin, Gordon H. Reeves |
| Publisher: | Oregon State University |
| Imprint: | Oregon State University |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 771g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 151mm x 226mm |
K. Norman Johnson
K. Norman Johnson is emeritus professor in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University.
Jerry F. Franklin is emeritus professor in the College of Environment, University of Washington.
Gordon H. Reeves is a retired fish biologist, Pacific Northwest Research Station of the US Forest Service.
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