Landscape and Politics on the Olympic Peninsula: Social Agendas and Contested Practices in Scientific Forestry

Abstract

Land managers have recently shifted scientific practice and management discourse to depoliticize and suppress social conflicts over the environment. The transformation of the landscape of the Olympic Peninsula, particularly the logging of old-growth forests, has involved residents in challenging these developments, reordering the landscape to create contradictory, cultural claims to the future of the peninsula and its resources.Keywords: Forestry, natural resource management, science, environmentalism, Washington State.

Values Mapping and Counter-Mapping in Contested Landscapes: an Olympic Peninsula (USA) Case Study

“…Much of the peninsula was logged during the latenineteenth and twentieth century, with the more accessible and productive forests along the western and southern flanks of the Olympics experiencing multiple harvest rotations (Dark 1997;Dietrich 1992). Only the ONP and the more inaccessible portions of the ONF have large areas of late successional forests remaining.…”

Perilaku Ekonomi Para Pihak Dalam Pemanfaatan Tumbuhan Obat Di Tn Meru Betiri Jawa Timur

“…Tetapi, hubungan antar suku di lokasi penelitian juga "sangat cair" dan memiliki toleransi yang tinggi karena biasanya kedua suku tersebut memiliki hubungan kekerabatan melalui pernikahan salah satu anggota keluarganya (Saheed & Egaikhide, 2012 (Dark, 1997).…”

Expanding the mine, killing a lake: A case study of First Nations' environmental values, perceptions of risk and health.

“…Dark (1997) uses forestry as an example of the shifting role of scientific models of management. The scientific model would generally focus on the ecological issues, but as Dark (1997) points out, "land-management science and policy have been reconceived in terms of "holistic" and "ecosystem-oriented" land management, involving "interagency teams" and "partnerships with industry" to achieve "consensus" at a time of intense conflict" which is "an ambitious agenda of social and ecological integration" (1). This is a familiar trend in resource development in general; for example, environmental impact assessments have only recently started to make reference to potential social impacts of proposed projects.…”

“…This is a familiar trend in resource development in general; for example, environmental impact assessments have only recently started to make reference to potential social impacts of proposed projects. Dark (1997) suggests that while this is a positive direction to move in, "current approaches to "consensus" are far from addressing [...] political inequalities" (19). In other words, scientific models of land-management that have historically provided a degree of "social control" are shifting towards a new agenda of consensus and consultation, but have not yet fully accomplished these goals.…”