The Northwest Forest Plan was implemented in 1994 to protect habitat for species associated with old-growth forests, including Northern Spotted Owls (Strix occidentailis caurina) in Washington, Oregon, and northern California (U.S.A.). Nevertheless, 10-year monitoring data indicate mixed success in meeting the ecological goals of the plan. We used the ecosystem management decision-support model...

This paper presents conceptual framework of forest foods and food security link to forest resource management to well being. NWFPs studies in different areas, important species to Lao people’s livelihood, household uses and commercialization, nutrition study on forest foods, NWFPs research projects in the past and going on project and the concepts note of one activity to be implemented on enhan...

This study focuses on the "Jingu Forest Management Plan" of Ise Jingu Shrine formulated in 1923, and clarifies zoning method shrine forests plan origin landscape conservation philosophy which was based, especially values that emphasize view forest from outside area. As a result, it found very similar to management Shintairin (sacred forest), discussed "Shaji Fuchirin Ron (Management Theory Temp...

this research was aimed to investigate the condition of the existing roads and designing road network based on forest management plan at armardah, baneh. using analytical hierarchy process (ahp) method, the important layers of slope, aspect, forest type and distance to villages and resorts, were weighted and ranked. maps were produced to weighted layers generated in gis to find suitable regions...

Spatial goals are becoming more frequent aspects of forest management plans as regulatory and organizational policies change in response to fi sheries and wildlife concerns. The combination of green-up constraints (harvesting restrictions that prevent the cutting of adjacent units for a specifi ed period of time) and habitat requirements for red-cockaded woodpeckers (RCW) in the southeastern U....

In forest management planning, deterministic timber prices are typically assumed. However, real-life timber prices vary in the course of time, and also price peaks, i.e. exceptionally high timber prices, might occur. If land-owners can utilise the price variation by selling timber with the high prices, they are able to increase their net revenues correspondingly. In this study, an approach is p...

Natural resource extraction and environmentalism are deeply engrained in the social fabric of the Pacific Northwest (U.S.A.) and are often pitted against one another in age-old timber wars that reached a climax in the 1980s and early 1990s. No other species typified these battles more than the Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), whose listing pursuant to the Endangered Species Ac...

Niemi, Ernie; Whitelaw, Ed. 1999. Assessing economic tradeoffs in forest management. Revised. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-403. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 78 p. Method is described for assessing the competing demands for forest resources in a forest management plan by addressing economics values, economic impacts, and perceptions...