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<div>Closing 2 paragraphs of review:<font face="Verdana"> 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."</font></div>
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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.</font></div>
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<div>OPEN ACCESS</div>
<div>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.1262/full</div>
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color="#141413">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."<br>
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WILLIAM R. L. ANDEREGG et al.<b> Drought's legacy: multiyear hydraulic
deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends
increased future risk.</b><i> Global Change Biology</i> (2013) 19,
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-1" color="#141413">doi:
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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."<br>
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"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.' "<br>
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Spencer Weart. "The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change."<br>
<i>Physics Today</i> (American Institute of Physics), August 2003<br>
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