Forest Management (MCGRAW HILL SERIES IN FOREST RESOURCES) - Hardcover

Davis, Lawrence; Johnson, K. Norman; Bettinger, Pete; Howard, Theodore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070326940 ISBN 13: 9780070326941

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2000

Synopsis

The edition includes significant changes while maintaining the features and strengths so highly valued by adopters for more than four decades! Forest Management retains its unique focus on analytical and quantitative ways of thinking about forest resources management. Its central aim is still to provide decision-makers and stakeholders with comprehensive, quantitative estimates of the consequences of various choices in land use and planning.

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From the Publisher:

New co-authors. Peter Bettinger (Oregon State) and Theodore Howard (Univ. of New Hampshire) have added expert contributions to make this tried-and-true text an even greater source of current, solid information.
Discussion of the three paradigm shifts in thinking among forest managers of the United States in Chapter 2.
Linear programming model is expanded to include long rotation, small group, selection, and special ecological prescriptions in addition to short rotation prescription.
Inclusion of quantification and projection of ecological and wildlife outcomes in forest management planning material.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0070326940
• ISBN 13: 9780070326941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 816