reinventing Management We propose that any future old-growth management strategies have four elements: • rethinking reserves • Thinking across landscapes and ownerships • Developing a new […]
Opportunities and Uncertainties Despite the logging and burning of more than twenty-five million acres of forest in the area in the past 100 years, the pacific […]
watersheds untouched by modern humans, other forests that are young or middle-aged, and still others where no old trees can be found except per- haps as […]
This week’s discussion is the effect of Media on diagnosis and intervention. Diagnosis and the description of mental health issues have recently become ubiquitous in the […]
reconceiving the Forest: a Twenty-First-Century renaissance? The old-growth crisis fomented vigorous argument and changed many of the ways we understand forests. But the development of the […]
Social Values, Institutional Values, Whose Values? The strong role of science in the old-growth debate gives the impression that this is a scientific problem, perhaps crossed […]
We wonder what those trees, some standing since before Columbus crossed the atlantic, have seen over the centuries. If they could speak, what would they tell […]
Complexity Meets Mystery Old-growth forests achieved their status as icons—objects of uncritical devotion—through the convergence of our increasing scientific understand- ing of complex systems with the […]