Ecological Silviculture: Foundations and Applications

Classical silviculture has often emphasized timber models, fundamentally based in production agriculture. This books presents silvicultural methods based in natural forest models—models that emulate natural disturbances and development processes, sustain biological legacies, and allow time to take its course in shaping stands. These methods, dubbed "ecological forestry," have been successfully implemented by foresters for decades managing a wide variety of forestlands. Ecological silvicultural strategies protect threatened and rare species, sustain biological diversity, and provide habitat for game and non-game species, all while providing timber in profitable ways. Also available from Waveland Press by Jerry F. Franklin and K. Norman Johnson, with Debora L. Johnson, Ecological Forest Management (ISBN 9781478633501). Title of related interest available from Waveland Press: Nyland, Silviculture: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition (ISBN 9781478627142).