Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West (Hardcover)

ContentsForeword

• Preface
• Section I
• I. Overview
• Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health in the Inland West
• Section II
• Historical and Anticipated Changes in Forest Ecosystems of the Inland West of the United States
• Defining and Measuring Forest Health
• Historical Range of Variability: A Useful Tool for Evaluating Ecosystem Change
• Managing Ecosystems for Forest Health: An Approach and the Effects on Uses and Values
• Human Dimensions of Forest Health Choices
• Section III
• I. Ecological and Historical Perspectives
• Postsettlement Changes in Natural Fire Regimes and Forest Structure: Ecological Restoration of Old-Growth Ponderosa Pine Forests
• The Role of Succession in Forest Health
• The Role of Nutrition in the Health of Inland Western Forests
• Integrated Roles for Insects, Diseases, and Decomposers in Fire Dominated Forests of the Inland Western United States: Past, Present, and Future Forest Health
• Assessing Forest Health Conditions in Idaho with Forest Inventory Data
• Conceptual Origins of Catastrophic Forest Mortality in the Western United States
• II. Processes, Models, and Tools
• Landscape Characterization: A Framework for Ecological Assessment at Regional and Local Scales
• Emphasis Areas as an Alternative to Buffer Zones and Reserved Areas in the Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes
• A Process for Improving Wildlife Habitat Models for Assessing Forest Ecosystem Health
• An Ecological Framework for Planning for Forest Health
• III. Management and Policy
• Forest Health Management Policy: A Case Study in Southwestern Idaho
• Silviculture, Fire, and Ecosystem Management
• Maintaining and Creating Old Growth Structural Features in Previously Disturbed Stands Typical of the Eastern Washington Cascades
• Forest Health and Wildlife Habitat Management on the Boise National Forest, Idaho
• Advance Regeneration in the Inland West: Considerations for Individual Tree and Forest Health
• Beyond Even- vs. Uneven-Aged Management: Toward a Cohort-Based Silvicullture
• Reference Notes Included
• Index