Regional Silviculture of the United States [Hardcover]

A valuable working resource for professionals.

An excellent text for advanced forestry students . . .

This unique book provides students and professionals with a broad-based knowledge of contemporary silviculture theory and practice.Throughout, the authors emphasize fundamental questions of edaphic,physiographic, and climatic site factors, as well as ecologicalrelationships and silvical characteristics of major tree species.Updated and expanded to reflect the many scientific, socioeconomic,and public policy trends that have had a profound impact onsilviculture over the past decade, this Third Edition of RegionalSilviculture of the United States:
* Brings together the knowledge and expertise of fourteen leadingexperts from around the nation
* Provides a rational framework with which to critically assessforest data and to develop innovative silvicultural solutions
* Features region-by-region coverage of the eleven major foresttypes in the continental U.S. and Alaska
* Offers a detailed look at practices that promote a wide range offorest resources--from wood production and outdoor recreation, towildlife habitat and range forage production
* Now includes more in-depth coverage of such crucial themes asbiodiversity, endangered species, habitat fragmentation, foresthealth, landscape management, neotropical migrants, and more

...silviculture is not reducible to a series of rules; it must beflexible and adaptable to a variety of conditions. Much of it is anart as well as a synthesis of ecology and economics. There is nosingle best answer to how a stand should be managed. Andinstitutional and societal constraints must be considered. --fromthe Preface by John W. Barrett

Regional Silviculture of the United States, Third Edition is not a cookbook, offering pat recipes for solving typical silviculturalproblems. Instead, it arms those responsilS5