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Forest ecosystem management assessment team: Objective and options
| Author: |
Thomas, J.W. |
| Date: |
1994 |
| Periodical: |
Journal of Forestry |
| Abstract: |
The FEMAT analyzed the ecological, economic, and social implications of 10 management options for federal forests in the range of the northern spotted owl. Figures 5 and 6 present some of these findings in graphic form. Taken together they show that increasing the probable sale quantity requires increasing the acres of late-successional forest in the matrix, which in turn increases the number of species at risk. While this result may seem simple and obvious, it summarizes the federal forest issue in the Northwest: timber harvest from federal forests of the owl region in the near future will come at the cost of increasing the risk to species dependent on these forests. The seven articles that follow attempt to outline the ecological, economic, and social implications of the different options. In addition, they discuss the ecological basis of the approaches taken in FEMAT and the difficulty of giving a biological interpretation of laws and regulations. In total, they attempt to summarize the FEMAT report, but they are just that, a summary. For a more in depth coverage, see the report itself. |
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