[MCN] Book review: FS insider agrees with conservationists

[Meredith Printz]

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On Feb 21, 2016, at 8:26 AM, Lance Olsen via Missoula-Community-News <missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org> wrote:

> Closing 2 paragraphs of review: He concludes the book with a "manifesto" that reflects that faith in the Forest Service to reestablish its leadership as a steward of public resources. He calls on the agency to practice the land ethic put forth by one of its own, Aldo Leopold, and to reclaim the vision and leadership exhibited at its founding when it symbolized the nascent conservation movement. He tries to add detail to these broad statements by recommending priorities that would be very familiar to anyone conducting research in ecosystem services. The greatest value, he argues, can be obtained by pursuing optimization instead of maximization of resources. "The Forest Service might not be generating revenue from the vast suite of environmental services these lands provided, as we did from logging and grazing," he writes, "but environmental services flowing from forested, mountainous landscapes will always far exceed the value of logging and grazing."
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> Furnish's writing is clear and cogent and serves the broader purpose well. The book itself reflects the accessibility, affordability, and high-quality presentation typical of Oregon State University Press. The result is an enjoyable read and an important book for anyone interested in natural resource management in the late-twentieth century.
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> OPEN ACCESS
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.1262/full
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> "Contrary to the expectation that surviving trees have weathered severe drought, the hydraulic deterioration demonstrated here reveals that surviving regions of these forests are actually more vulnerable to future droughts due to accumulated xylem damage."
> 
> WILLIAM R. L. ANDEREGG et al. Drought's legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk. Global Change Biology (2013) 19, 1188-1196
> doi: 10.1111/gcb.12100
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> "How fast can our planet's climate change? Too slowly for humans to notice, according to the firm belief of most scientists through much of the 20th century."
> 
> "Today, there is evidence that severe change can take less than a decade. A committee of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has called this reorientation in the thinking of scientists a veritable 'paradigm shift.'  The new paradigm of abrupt global climate change, the committee reported in 2002, 'has been well established by research over the last decade, but this new thinking is little known and scarcely appreciated in the wider community of natural and social scientists and policymakers.' "
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> Spencer Weart. "The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change."
> Physics Today (American Institute of Physics), August 2003
> http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_56/iss_8/30_1.shtml
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