Compatible Forest Management: Background and Context

摘要: Let us begin by defining our area of interest: the moist maritime forests Pacific Northwest (PNW). Geographically (as shown in Figure 1), this includes western Oregon and Washington (the west side Cascade Range, Coast Olympic Mountains), coastal British Columbia (Coast island-dominated southeastern Alaska far north as Kenai Peninsula). Collectively, is world’s northernmost temperate rainforest (Walter 1985). Although zone stretches southward to San Francisco, California, we focus research northward from California-Oregon border. The east-west extent forest varies a function climate elevation; ranges few kilometers at northern southern extremes several hundred middle its range. Much half range (British Vancouver Island Alaska) relatively undisturbed, natural state. Island, California contains some most valuable productive commercial timberlands. An important subset PNW Douglas-fir region (western Oregon), which dominated fast-growing (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco).