Lessons from Wildfire Managing the Pattern of Forest Harvest
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One challenge facing today’s forest managers is how to preserve biological diversity while maintaining a competitive forest industry. These two objectives are frequently at odds. A new approach to landscape management in the Sub-Boreal Spruce (SBS) zone is suggested here. This approach calls for larger harvest units coupled with irregular boundaries, large leave areas outside the harvest zone, and many reserves of undisturbed timber within the harvested area. The goal is to create managed disturbances that more closely mimic the characteristics of wildfire disturbance.
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