Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances
Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances

Author: Ajith H. Perera

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2008-01-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0231503083

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What is a natural forest disturbance? How well do we understand natural forest disturbances and how might we emulate them in forest management? What role does emulation play in forest management? Representing a range of geographic perspectives from across Canada and the United States, this book looks at the escalating public debate on the viability of natural disturbance emulation for sustaining forest landscapes from the perspective of policymakers, forestry professionals, academics, and conservationists. This book provides a scientific foundation for justifying the use of and a solid framework for examining the ambiguities inherent in emulating natural forest landscape disturbance. It acknowledges the divergent expectations that practitioners face and offers a balanced view of the promises and challenges associated with applying this emerging forest management paradigm. The first section examines foundational concepts, addressing questions of what emulation involves and what ecological reasoning substantiates it. These include a broad overview, a detailed review of emerging forest management paradigms and their global context, and an examination of the ecological premise for emulating natural disturbance. This section also explores the current understanding of natural disturbance regimes, including the two most prevalent in North America: fire and insects. The second section uses case studies from a wide geographical range to address the characterization of natural disturbances and the development of applied templates for their emulation through forest management. The emphasis on fire regimes in this section reflects the greater focus that has traditionally been placed on understanding and managing fire, compared with other forms of disturbance, and utilizes several viewpoints to address the lessons learned from historical disturbance patterns. Reflecting on current thinking in the field, immediate challenges, and potential directions, the final section moves deeper into the issues of practical applications by exploring the expectations for and feasibility of emulating natural disturbance through forest management.

Emulating Natural Landscape Disturbance in Forest Management:
Emulating Natural Landscape Disturbance in Forest Management:

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 3

ISBN-13:

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Forest researchers, managers, & policy makers are increasingly interested in forest management practices based on stand- & landscape-level natural disturbances. In North America, these practices are referred to as managing within the historic range of natural variation or emulating natural forest disturbance. This paper provides an introduction to this practice, noting its goal of maintaining forest structure & composition within the spatial & temporal characteristics generated by prevailing natural disturbance regimes such as fire and pest epidemics. It also briefly summarizes papers presented at a 2002 symposium held to explore the emulation of natural forest disturbances, covering such topics as quantifying historical fire regimes, characterizing landscape changes, simulating disturbance regimes through modelling, and evaluating alternative vegetation management scenarios.

Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances
Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances

Author: Ontario Forest Research Institute

Publisher: Sault Ste. Marie : Ontario Forest Research Institute

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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This publication is a compendium of summaries of presentations from a symposium that discussed the concepts, challenges, and potential consequences of implementing emulation of natural forest landscape disturbances at the landscape level in forest management. The first set of presentations covers such topics as predicting natural forest disturbances, predicting fire regimes and forest insect disturbance regimes, silvicultural concepts, the ecological basis for emulation, boreal forest management, and the economics of emulation forestry. The second set presents case studies from across northern & central North America to illustrate some practical applications of the concepts behind emulation of natural forest landscape disturbances.

Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances
Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances

Author: Ajith H. Perera

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9780231129169

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"This book provides a scientific foundation for justifying the use of and a solid framework for examining the ambiguities inherent in emulating natural forest landscape disturbance. It acknowledges the divergent expectations that practitioners face and offers a balanced-view of the promises and challenges associated with applying this emerging forest management paradigm."--BOOK JACKET.

An Analysis of Literature on Natural Fire Disturbances in Relation to Ontario's Forest Management Guide for Natural Disturbance Pattern Emulation
An Analysis of Literature on Natural Fire Disturbances in Relation to Ontario's Forest Management Guide for Natural Disturbance Pattern Emulation

Author: Lisa J. Buse

Publisher: Sault Ste. Marie : Ontario Forest Research Institute

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Ontario's "Forest management guide for natural disturbance pattern emulation" provides direction for emulating natural fire disturbances in forest management planning. This report examines the North American scientific literature on natural fire disturbances in relation to the directions in this guide for: landscape harvest size patterns; landscape harvest patch separation; residual stands; and residual trees & downed woody debris. Gaps in the published knowledge are identified. An annotated bibliography of the literature reviewed for the report is included.

Public Acceptance of Disturbance-Based Forest Management
Public Acceptance of Disturbance-Based Forest Management

Author: Shindler

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-02-14

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781506167800

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This report provides a detailed summary of research conducted on public acceptability of disturbance-based forest management in the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area (CCAMA). Growing emphasis on ecosystem and landscape-level forest management across North America has spurred an examination of alternative management strategies that focus on emulating dynamic natural disturbance processes, particularly those associated with forest fire regimes. This topic is the cornerstone of research in the Blue River Landscape Study (BRLS) taking place in the CCAMA, located in the McKenzie River watershed of western Oregon. Public acceptability plays a critical role in the success of ecosystem management practices.

Public Acceptance of Disturbance-based Forest Management
Public Acceptance of Disturbance-based Forest Management

Author: Bruce A. Shindler

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13:

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This report examines public perspectives on disturbance-based management conducted in the central Cascade Range in Oregon as part of the Blue River Landscape Strategy. A mail survey to local residents was used to describe the publics understanding of this form of management, identify perceived associated risks and potential barriers to implementation, and the overall level of support for disturbance-based practices. Findings suggest the public generally supports the disturbance-based concept, particularly ecological benefits, but many individuals are still uncertain about details and are withholding judgment until they see the outcomes of implementation. Support is highly correlated with citizens past interaction with local managers. Major concerns involve the amount of timber harvesting necessary to achieve objectives and the possibility that changing national politics may influence the consistency of agency policies toward disturbance-based management.

Ecological Silvicultural Systems
Ecological Silvicultural Systems

Author: Brian J. Palik

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2023-10-03

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1119890934

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ECOLOGICAL SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS Unleash the natural power and adaptability of forests with this cutting-edge guide For generations, silvicultural systems have focused largely on models whose primary objective is the production of timber, leading to drastically simplified forests with reduced ecological richness, diversity, and complexity. Ecological silviculture, by contrast, focuses on producing and maintaining forests with “all their parts”—, that is, with the diversity and flexibility to respond and adapt to global changes. Ecological silviculture seeks to emulate natural development models and sustain healthy forests serving multiple values and goals. Ecological Silvicultural Systems provides a comprehensive introduction to these approaches and their benefits tailored to diverse types of forests, designed for forest management professionals. It provides a series of exemplary models for ecological silviculture and surveys the resulting forest ecosystems. The result is a text that meets the needs of professionals in forestry and natural resource management with an eye towards sustaining healthy forest ecosystems, adapting them to climate change, protecting them from invasive species, and responding to changing market forces. Ecological Silvicultural Systems readers will also find: Detailed treatment of forest ecosystems in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia A broad field of contributors with decades of combined expertise on multiple continents Discussion of pine woodlands; temperate hardwood forests, boreal forests, temperate rainforests, and more Ecological Silvicultural Systems is a useful reference for professional foresters, wildlife habitat managers, restoration ecologists, and undergraduate and graduate students in any of these fields.