Old growth revisited: integrating social, economic, and ecological perspectives
How should old-growth forests be managed? Should they be managed? Stakeholders with differing values and agendas have debated these questions for years. Over time, the debate has evolved: now there is greater awareness about the complexity of old-growth ecosystems and different ways humans value them. A scientist at the Pacific Northwest Research Station has co-edited a book to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview and synthesis to further this discussion. Written for a lay audience, Old Growth in a New World: A Pacific Northwest Icon Reexamined is meant to help deepen policymakers' and public understanding of old growth.
Citation
Oliver, Marie; Spies, Tom; Duncan, Sally. 2009. Old growth revisited: integrating social, economic, and ecological perspectives. Science Findings 110. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 5 p.
People
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Thomas Spies
Emeritus Scientist
For Further Reading
- A.B. Carey. 2003. Biocomplexity and restoration of biodiversity in temperate coniferous forest: inducing spatial heterogeneity with variable-density thinning.
- M.C. Wimberly, T.M. Spies, C.J. Long, C. Whitlock. 2000. Simulating historical variability in the amount of old forests in the Oregon Coast Range.
External Publications
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Spies, T.A.; Duncan, S.L., eds. 2009. Old growth in a new world: a Pacific Northwest Icon Reexamined. Washington, DC: Island Press. 344 p.
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Thomas, J.W.; Franklin, J.F.; Gordon, J.; Johnson, K.N. 2006. The Northwest Forest Plan: origins, components, implementation experience, and suggestions for change. Conservation Biology. 20(2): 277–287.