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News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranchers, and forest workers are bucking preconceptions to establish common ground. As they join together to protect the wide open spaces, diverse habitats, and working landscapes upon which people, plants, and animals depend, a new vision of management is emerging in which the conservation of biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, and sustainable resource use are seen not as antithetical, but as compatible, even symbiotic goals. Featuring contributions from an impressive array of scientists, conservationists, scholars, ranchers, and foresters, Stitching the West Back Together explores that expanded, inclusive vision of environmentalism as it delves into the history and evolution of Western land use policy and of the working landscapes themselves. Chapters include detailed case studies of efforts to promote both environmental and economic sustainability, with lessons learned; descriptions of emerging institutional frameworks for conserving Western working landscapes; and implications for best practices and policies crucial to the future of the West's working forests and rangelands. As economic and demographic forces threaten these lands with fragmentation and destruction, this book encourages a hopeful balance between production and conservation on the large, interconnected landscapes required for maintaining cultural and biological diversity over the longterm.
Landscape ecology --- Ecology --- conservation, landscape, geography, western world, news, headlines, conservationists, conflict, protection, lands, united states, usa, america, expansion, common ground, rancher, forest worker, diversity, habitat, nature, natural, land use, rangeland, essay collection, anthology, policy, redwood, regional, locale, coalition, stewardship, community, sonoran desert, livestock, production, political, politics, government, beef, agriculture.
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This report examines socioeconomic changes that took place between 1990 and 2003 on and around lands managed by the Klamath National Forest in California to assess the effects of the Northwest Forest Plan (the Plan) on rural economies and communities there. Three case communities were studied: Scott Valley, Butte Valley, and Mid-Klamath. The report characterizes the region and its history, discusses management changes on the forest under the Plan and how they were perceived, describes socioeconomic change in the communities and how they were linked to the Plan, and evaluates how well Plan socioeconomic goals were met by the Klamath National Forest.
Forest policy --- Forest management --- Rural development --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Northwest Forest Plan (U.S.) --- Klamath National Forest (Calif. and Or.) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.
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Forest policy --- Forest policy --- Forests and forestry --- Forests and forestry --- Forestry and community --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Northwest Forest Plan (U.S.)
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Watershed restoration --- Watershed restoration --- Watershed ecology --- Dams --- American beaver --- Landowners --- Monitoring --- Behavior --- Attitudes.
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"There are opportunities for forest owners and ranchers to participate in emerging carbon markets and contribute to climate change mitigation through carbonoriented forest and range management activities. These activities often promote sustainable forestry and ranching and broader conservation goals while having the potential to provide a new income stream for landowners. We describe current carbon market opportunities for landowners, discuss common steps they must typically undergo to take advantage of these opportunities, and address related questions. We also provide a synthesis of the existing scientific literature on how different forest and range management practices are thought to contribute to carbon sequestration, including current debates on this topic. The science regarding forestry and carbon sequestration is more advanced and less controversial than that for range management, and more opportunities exist for forest owners to participate in carbon markets than for ranchers. We describe some of the challenges of including landowners in carbon markets, and issues that will likely need to be addressed to develop relevant policy."
Forest management --- Climate change mitigation --- Carbon sequestration --- Carbon dioxide mitigation --- Carbon dioxide --- Environmental aspects
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This paper synthesizes the existing literature about traditional and local ecological knowledge relating to biodiversity in Pacific Northwest forests in order to assess what is needed to apply this knowledge to forest biodiversity conservation efforts. We address four topics: (1) views and values people have relating to biodiversity, (2) the resource use and management practices of local forest users and their effects on biodiversity, (3) methods and models for integrating traditional and local ecological knowledge into biodiversity conservation on public and private lands, and (4) challenges to applying traditional and local ecological knowledge for biodiversity conservation. We focus on the ecological knowledge of three groups who inhabit the region: American Indians, family forest owners, and commercial nontimber forest product (NTFP) harvesters. Integrating traditional and local ecological knowledge into forest biodiversity conservation is most likely to be successful if the knowledge holders are directly engaged with forest managers and western scientists in on-the-ground projects in which interaction and knowledge sharing occur. Three things important to the success of such efforts are understanding the communication styles of knowledge holders, establishing a foundation of trust to work from, and identifying mutual benefits from knowledge sharing that create an incentive to collaborate for biodiversity conservation. Although several promising models exist for how to integrate traditional and local ecological knowledge into forest management, a number of social, economic, and policy constraints have prevented this knowledge from flourishing and being applied. These constraints should be addressed alongside any strategy for knowledge integration.
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Watershed restoration --- Watershed ecology --- Dams --- American beaver --- Landowners --- Monitoring --- Behavior
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Watershed restoration --- Watershed ecology --- Range management --- Dams --- American beaver --- Ranchers --- Monitoring --- Behavior
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Watershed restoration --- Watershed ecology --- Dams --- American beaver --- Landowners --- Ranchers --- Monitoring --- Behavior --- Reintroduction --- Habitat --- Conservation
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