Sustainability: Five steps for managing Europe's forests

Managing Forests for Wildlife

wood ducks that winter extensively in southern bottoms, nest throughout much of forested North America. And probably more importantly than use by individual animals, broad-scale landscape habitat conditions affect wildlife community composition and population function of species. For example, very small pockets of forest habitat may serve as sinks for forest interior birds, where mortality exce...

Managing Forests for Yield

Management of forest vegetation and its relationship to water yield has long been a lively issue. The USDA Forest Service has been criticized in northern Colorado for failing to have a forest management strategy that includes consideration of water yield for downstream users, including fish and wildlife (Swanson 1998). Some say it is possible to get substantial increases in runoff with modest v...

Interpreting Sustainability for Urban Forests

Incisive interpretations of urban-forest sustainability are important in furthering our understanding of how to sustain the myriad values associated with urban forests. Our analysis of earlier interpretations reveals conceptual gaps. These interpretations are attached to restrictive definitions of a sustainable urban forest and limited to a rather mechanical view of maintaining the biophysical ...

Sustainability of Forests

Hunting for sustainability in tropical secondary forests.

The interaction between land-use change and the sustainability of hunting is poorly understood but is critical for sustaining hunted vertebrate populations and a protein supply for the rural poor. We investigated sustainability of hunting in an Amazonian landscape mosaic, where a small human population had access to large areas of both primary and secondary forest. Harvestable production of mam...