Effect of Cuttings on the Scenic Beauty of a Tree Stand

Silvennoinen, Harri; Pukkala, Timo; Tahvanainen, Liisa

doi:10.1080/028275802753742936

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“…Values and policies relating to conservation are also highly related to tree retention practices. To the authors' knowledge, there are very few social studies that specifically address tree retention (but see Silvennoinen et al, 2002;Uliczka, 2003;Tö nnes et al, 2004).…”

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Tree retention as a conservation measure in clear-cut forests of northern Europe: a review of ecological consequences

Gustafsson

Kouki

Sverdrup‐Thygeson

2010

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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Since the mid-1990s, it has been common practice to leave trees for biodiversity purposes when clear-cutting in Finland, Norway and Sweden, and regulations for such tree retention are today included in national legislation and certification standards. Peer-reviewed research publications on tree retention from studies performed in the three countries were analyzed and about 50 relevant biodiversity studies were found, with the first published in 1994. Most studies were directed towards beetles and dead wood, especially high stumps. General conclusions were that retention trees (1) provide some of the substrate types required by early-successional species, (2) alleviate the most serious consequences of clear-cutting on biota, and (3) cannot maintain characteristics of intact mature forests. Larger volumes and more trees tend to maintain diversity better. There is a particular lack of studies on dispersal, landscape effects and long-term dynamics. There is a need to study further the relationship between the biota and the amount of trees, as well as their spatial arrangement. Retention trees should preferably be evaluated in relation to other components in multiscaled conservation, including woodland key habitats and larger protected areas.

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confidence: 99%

Tree retention as a conservation measure in clear-cut forests of northern Europe: a review of ecological consequences

Gustafsson

Kouki

Sverdrup‐Thygeson

2010

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

206

123

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“…Given everyman's rights, however, the forest owner will not be compensated for providing recreational environments, and lacks a financial incentive to take the landscape and recreation into account in forest management. Especially large-scale clearcutting with intensive site preparation for regeneration have an adverse effect on the landscape (Ribe 2009;Silvennoinen, Pukkala, and Tahvanainen 2002;Gundersen and Frivold 2008;Tyrv€ ainen et al 2008;Tyrv€ ainen, Silvennoinen, and Hallikainen 2017), but delaying or abandoning clearcutting inflicts upon the forest owner a loss of income that is presently not compensated for.…”

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Integrating nature-based tourism and forestry in private lands under heterogeneous visitor preferences for forest attributes

Mäntymaa

Ovaskainen

Juutinen

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Developing nature-based tourism in private lands calls for new mechanisms to consolidate the interests of the tourism industry, visitors, and landowners. This choice experiment study elaborates on the heterogeneity of visitors' preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for enhanced forest amenities and ecosystem services. The survey, targeting domestic and foreign tourists visiting the Ruka-Kuusamo area in Finland, considered four attributes: landscape quality, outdoor routes, forest biodiversity, and carbon sequestration. For observed heterogeneity, the visitors were grouped by their attitudes towards forest management. Unobserved heterogeneity in visitors' choice behaviour and WTP was examined with the latent class model. While most visitors had environmentally friendly attitudes and were willing to pay, especially for enhanced landscape quality and biodiversity, considerable heterogeneity was revealed in terms of three segments with distinctive attitudes, choice behaviour and WTP. The variation in WTP has important implications for the design of a scheme of payments for environmental management.

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“…According to the earlier studies on the preferences on forest use, the majority of citizens, regardless of forest ownership, do not approve of clearcutting (Valkeapää and Karppinen 2013). Also, according to pairwise comparisons of edited photographs of various forest management alternatives (Silvennoinen et al 2002;Tönnes et al 2004;Ribe 2009), the scenic values in clearcut forests are consistently lower than in forests grown in denser, uneven-aged structures. Yet, it should be noted that the studies mentioned in the previous sentence estimated preferences for alternatives of clear cuttings, such as seedling tree or retention tree harvests, and were thus examined at initially very low tree densities and using close-range visualizations.…”

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Reconstructing forest canopy from the 3D triangulations of airborne laser scanning point data for the visualization and planning of forested landscapes

Ruotsalainen

2017

Annals of Forest Science

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& Key messageWe present a data-driven technique to visualize forest landscapes and simulate their future development according to alternative management scenarios. Gentle harvesting intensities were preferred for maintaining scenic values in a test of eliciting public's preferences based on the simulated landscapes. & Context Visualizations of future forest landscapes according to alternative management scenarios are useful for eliciting stakeholders' preferences on the alternatives. However, conventional computer visualizations require laborious tree-wise measurements or simulators to generate these observations. & Aims We describe and evaluate an alternative approach, in which the visualization is based on reconstructing forest canopy from sparse density, leaf-off airborne laser scanning data. & Methods Computational geometry was employed to generate filtrations, i.e., ordered sets of simplices belonging to the three-dimensional triangulations of the point data. An appropriate degree of filtering was determined by analyzing the topological persistence of the filtrations. The topology was further utilized to simulate changes to canopy biomass, resembling harvests with varying retention levels. Relative priorities of recreational and scenic values of the harvests were estimated based on pairwise comparisons and analytic hierarchy process (AHP). & Results The canopy elements were co-located with the tree stems measured in the field, and the visualizations derived from the entire landscape showed reasonably realistic, despite a low numerical correspondence with plot-level forest attributes. The potential and limitations to improve the proposed parameterization are discussed. & Conclusion Although the criteria to evaluate the landscape visualization and simulation models were not conclusive, the results suggest that forest scenes may be feasibly reconstructed based on data already covering broad areas and readily available for practical applications.

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Effect of Cuttings on the Scenic Beauty of a Tree Stand

Cited by 65 publications

References 14 publications

Tree retention as a conservation measure in clear-cut forests of northern Europe: a review of ecological consequences

Tree retention as a conservation measure in clear-cut forests of northern Europe: a review of ecological consequences

Integrating nature-based tourism and forestry in private lands under heterogeneous visitor preferences for forest attributes

Reconstructing forest canopy from the 3D triangulations of airborne laser scanning point data for the visualization and planning of forested landscapes

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