Maintaining wildlife habitat in southeastern Alaska: implications of new knowledge for forest management and research

Hanley, Thomas A.; Smith, Winston P.; Gende, Scott M.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2004.09.016

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“…First, the investment in secondgrowth management is a much-needed development, because the thinning of young second-growth forest accelerates growth rates, improves timber quality, and hastens the development of forest structure to an old-growth condition. The latter benefit of thinning is critical for restoring habitats for wildlife and fish species of ecological, subsistence, and commercial importance in southeastern Alaska (Hanley et al 2005, Beier et al 2008b). Prior to the new initiative, the Forest Service funded thinning operations at an insufficient level on the Tongass.…”

Section: Two Further Examples Of Adaptation Emerged In 2006mentioning

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Factors Influencing Adaptive Capacity in the Reorganization of Forest Management in Alaska

Beier¹

2011

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ABSTRACT. Several studies of U.S. National Forests suggest that declines of their associated forest products industries were driven by synergistic changes in federal governance and market conditions during the late 20th century. In Alaska, dramatic shifts in the economic and political settings of the Tongass National Forest (Tongass) drove changes in governance leading to collapse of an industrial forest management system in the early 1990s. However, 15 years since collapse, the reorganization of Tongass governance to reflect 'new' economic and political realities has not progressed. To understand both the factors that hinder institutional change (inertia) and the factors that enable progress toward reorganization (adaptation), I analyzed how Tongass forest management, specifically timber sale planning, has responded to changes in market conditions, local industry structure, and larger-scale political governance. Inertia was evidenced by continued emphasis on even-aged management and large-scale harvesting, i.e., the retention of an industrial forestry philosophy that, in the current political situation, yields mostly litigation and appeals, and relatively few forest products. Adaptation was evidenced by flexibility in harvest methods, a willingness to meet local demand instead of political targets, and a growing degree of cooperation with environmental advocacy groups. New partnerships, markets, and political leaders at state and national levels can frame a new blueprint for reorganization of Tongass management toward a more sustainable future.

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Section: Two Further Examples Of Adaptation Emerged In 2006mentioning

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Factors Influencing Adaptive Capacity in the Reorganization of Forest Management in Alaska

Beier¹

2011

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“…The Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska (Hanley et al, 2005), the city of Melbourne in the state of Victoria, Australia (Gordan et al, 2009), and the northern California oak woodlands of Sonoma County, California (Merenlender et al, 2009) will be summarized herein.…”

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Rodiek

2010

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…We did not address successional dynamics because these primary forests were largely unmodified by human actions when industrial forestry began, and because secondgrowth forests did not reach a harvestable age during the short lifespan of industrial forestry in the region. Hanley et al (2005) and Beier et al (2008) address the longer-term ecological implications of clearcut harvesting and even-aged management practices in the temperate rainforests of southeastern Alaska.…”

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Growth and Collapse of a Resource System: an Adaptive Cycle of Change in Public Lands Governance and Forest Management in Alaska

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Chapin³

2009

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Maintaining wildlife habitat in southeastern Alaska: implications of new knowledge for forest management and research

Cited by 17 publications

References 64 publications

Factors Influencing Adaptive Capacity in the Reorganization of Forest Management in Alaska

Factors Influencing Adaptive Capacity in the Reorganization of Forest Management in Alaska

Upgrading our land use decision making

Growth and Collapse of a Resource System: an Adaptive Cycle of Change in Public Lands Governance and Forest Management in Alaska

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