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• ISBN: 9781597264099 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 1597264091 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9781597264105 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 1597264105 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xiii, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, c2009.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Searching for old growth / Thomas A. Spies and Sally L. Duncan -- Historical context of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest -- policy, practices, and competing worldviews / K. Norman Johnson and Frederick J. Swanson -- Science of old growth, or a journey into wonderland / Thomas A. Spies -- Old-growth forest as wildlife habitat / Barry R. Noon -- Maintaining biodiversity in managed forests / Andrew B. Carey -- Fish and old-growth forests / Gordon H. Reeves and Peter A. Bisson -- Contribution of old-growth timber to regional economies in the Pacific Northwest / Richard W. Haynes -- Sacred trees / Robert G. Lee -- Old growth and a new nature: ambivalence of science and religion / Jim Proctor -- Common sense versus symbolism: the case for public involvement in the old-growth debate / Brent S. Steel -- Starting the fight and finishing the job / Andy Kerr -- A private-lands and state-lands perspective / Howard Sohn -- Getting from "no" to "yes": a conservationist's perspective / Rick Brown -- Old growth: failures of the past and hope for the future / Ross Mickey -- In the shadow of the cedars: spiritual values of old-growth forests / Kathleen Dean Moore -- Old growth: evolution of an intractable conflict / Julia M. Wondolleck -- Increasing difficulty of active management on national forests -- problems and solutions / Jack Ward Thomas -- Is adaptive management too risky for old-growth forests? / George H. Stankey -- Nontimber economic values of old-growth forests: what are they, and how do we preserve them? / John Loomis -- Regional conservation of old-growth forest in a changing world: a global and temporal perspective / Hal Salwasser -- Moving science and immovable values: clumsy solutions for old-growth forests / Denise Lach -- Conserving old-growth forests and attributes: reservation, restoration, and resilience / Jerry F. Franklin -- Managing young stands to develop old-growth characteristics / John Tappeiner -- Managing forest landscapes and sustaining old growth / Chadwick Dearing Oliver -- Unexplored potential of Northwest forests / Bettina Von Hagen -- Old growth in a new world: a synthesis / Sally L. Duncan, Denise Lach, and Thomas A. Spies -- Conserving old growth in a new world / Thomas A. Spies ... [et al.].

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Old growth forests > Northwest, Pacific.
Old growth forest conservation > Northwest, Pacific.
Old growth forest ecology > Northwest, Pacific.