Twenty-five years of the Northwest Forest Plan what have we learned?

The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) has guided the management of 17 federal forests in the US Pacific Northwest for the past 25 years. The existing management plans for these national forests – which were amended by the NWFP – are now being evaluated for revision under the US Forest Service’s 2012 plan...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in ecology and the environment Jg. 17; H. 9; S. 511 - 520
Hauptverfasser: Spies, Thomas A, Long, Jonathan W, Charnley, Susan, Hessburg, Paul F, Marcot, Bruce G, Reeves, Gordon H, Lesmeister, Damon B, Reilly, Matthew J, Cerveny, Lee K, Stine, Peter A, Raphael, Martin G
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Washington John Wiley and Sons, Inc 01.11.2019
Ecological Society of America
Schlagworte:
Adaptive management
Climate change
Ecological monitoring
Ecosystem services
Environmental restoration
Forest management
forest restoration
Forests
human communities
Land management
learning
monitoring
National forests
Pacific States
planning
Restoration
REVIEWS
Socioeconomics
stakeholders
Timber
Timber supply
uncertainty
USDA Forest Service
Wildfires
Wildlife conservation
United States > US
Pacific States
ISSN:1540-9295, 1540-9309
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Zusammenfassung:The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) has guided the management of 17 federal forests in the US Pacific Northwest for the past 25 years. The existing management plans for these national forests – which were amended by the NWFP – are now being evaluated for revision under the US Forest Service’s 2012 planning rule. To help inform federal land managers, we reviewed the scientific literature published since the inception of the NWFP and report several key findings: (1) conservation of at-risk species within national forests is challenging in the face of threats that are beyond the control of federal managers, (2) management efforts to promote resilience to wildfire and climate change include restoring dynamics and structure at multiple scales and revisiting reserve design, (3) forest restoration can have an ecological and socioeconomic win–win outcome, (4) human communities benefit from many ecosystem services beyond the supply of timber, (5) collaboration among multiple stakeholders is essential for achieving ecological and socioeconomic goals, and (6) monitoring and adaptive management are crucial to learning about and addressing uncertainty.
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ISSN:1540-9295
1540-9309
DOI:10.1002/fee.2101