Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-642) and index.
Contents:
Concepts in Forestry and Conservation -- Agroforestry -- Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act -- Amazon Deforestation and Global Warming -- Clear-Cutting -- Deforestation -- Destruction of the Rainforests -- Ecotourism -- Forest and Range Policy -- Forest Management -- Forests and Anthropogenic Climate Change -- The History of Conservation in the United States -- The History of Land-Use Policy -- Land Clearance -- Logging Industry -- National Forest Management Act -- National Forests -- National Parks -- National Parks Act, Canadian -- National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act -- Preservation of Old-Growth Forests -- Rainforests and the Atmosphere -- Reforestation -- Surface Mining -- Sustainable Forestry -- Tree Rings and Climatological Information -- Watershed Management -- Watersheds -- Wilderness Areas -- Wildlife Refuges -- Wood and Charcoal as Fuel Resources -- Fires -- Bushfires -- California Wildfires, 2018 -- California Wildfires, 2020 -- Canadian Wildfires, 2023 -- Controlled Burning -- Fires in Nature -- Fires in Yellowstone National Park -- Forest Fire Modeling -- Forest Fires and Healthy Forests -- Fort McMurray Wildfire -- Wildfire Management -- Wildfires -- Wildfires and Wilderness Life Cycles -- Classifications of Forestry-Related Biomes Boreal Forests and Taiga -- Cloud Forests -- Coniferous Forests -- Deciduous Forests -- Mediterranean Forests -- Montane Forests -- Plantation Forests -- Temperate Coniferous Forests -- Temperate Deciduous Forests -- Tropical Rainforests -- Tropical Seasonal Forests -- Organizations in Forestry and Conservation -- American Forests -- Global ReLeaf -- Intergovernmental Panel on Forests -- National Audubon Society -- National Park Service -- National Wildlife Federation -- Natural Resources Conservation Service -- Natural Resources Defense Council -- Nature Conservancy -- Rainforest Action Network -- Sierra Club -- US Bureau of Land Management -- Wilderness Society -- World Wide Fund for Nature -- World Wilderness Congress -- The World's Forests, Related Biomes and Ecosystems -- Alaska Peninsula Montane Taiga -- Albertine Rift Montane Forests -- Allegheny Highlands Forests -- Alps Conifer and Mixed Forests -- Amazon River -- Appalachian-Blue Ridge Forests -- Appalachian Mixed Mesophytic Forests -- Arizona Mountains Forests -- Atlantic Equatorial Coastal Forests -- Azores Temperate Mixed Forests -- Bahia Forests -- Blue Mountains Forests -- Borneo Rainforests -- Brahmaputra Valley Semievergreen Forests -- British Columbia Mainland Coastal Forests -- Budongo Forest Project -- Buru Rainforest -- Caatinga Dry Woodland -- California Chapparal and Woodlands -- Cameroon Savanna Plantation Forests -- Canary Islands Dry Woodlands and Forests -- Cardamom Mountains Rainforests -- Carpathian Montane Conifer Forests -- Caucasus Mixed Forests -- Celtic Broadleaf Forests -- Central American Atlantic Moist Forests -- Central American Montane Forests -- Central China Loess Plateau Mixed Forests -- Central Indochina Dry Forests -- Central US Hardwood Forests -- Chatham Island Temperate Forests -- Chilean Matorral Forests -- Chittagong Hill Tracts Plantation Forests -- Christmas and Cocos Islands Tropical Islands -- Colorado Rockies Forests -- Congo River Basin -- Congolian Lowlands Forests -- Congolian Swamp Forests -- Copper Plateau Taiga -- Costa Rica Seasonal Moist Forests -- Cyprus Mediterranean Forests -- Deccan Plateau Dry Deciduous Forests -- East African Montane Forests -- Eastern Australian Temperate Forests -- Eastern Cascades Forests -- Eastern Mediterranean Sclerophyllus Broadleaf Forests -- Eastern Paraguay Plantation Forests -- Everglades Wetlands -- Gondwana Rainforest -- Great Basin Montane Forests -- Great Lakes Forests -- Hawaiian Tropical Moist Forests -- Himalayan Broadleaf Forests -- Himalayan Subalpine Conifer Forests -- Himalayan Subtropical Pine Forests -- Hokkaido Montane Conifer Forests -- Huertar Norte Plantation Forests -- Huntsman Valley (Tasmania) Plantation Forests -- Iberian Conifer Forests -- Iceland Boreal Birch Forests and Alpine Tundra -- Indochina Subtropical Forests -- Irrawaddy Moist Deciduous Forests -- Italian Sclerophyllous and Semideciduous Forests -- Java-Bali Rainforests -- Kakamega Rainforest -- Kalimantan (Indonesia) Rainforests -- Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks -- Klamath-Siskiyou Forests -- Kuitpo Plantation Forest -- Lord Howe Island Subtropical Forests -- Luang Prabang Montane Rainforests -- Luzon Rainforest -- Madagascar Lowland Forests -- Madeira Evergreen Forests -- Magdalena Valley Montane Forest -- Magellanic Subpolar Forests -- Malabar Coast Moist Forests -- Manchurian Mixed Forests -- Marajó Várzea Forests -- Meghalaya Subtropical Forests -- Middle Atlantic Coastal Forests -- Miombo Woodlands -- Mississippi Lowland Forests -- Missouri River -- Monte Alegre Várzea Forests -- Muskwa-Slave Lake Forests -- Namibian Savanna Woodlands -- New Caledonia Dry Forests -- New England-Acadian Forests -- New Guinea Freshwater Swamp Forests -- New Jersey Pine Barrens -- Niger Delta Swamp Forests -- Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean Forests -- Northern California Coastal Forests -- Northern Pacific Coastal Forests -- Northwestern and Southwestern Ghats Montane Rainforests -- Northwestern Andean Montane Forests -- Okanagan Dry Forests -- Ozark Mountain Forests -- Peninsular Malaysian Rainforests -- Pindus Mountains Mixed Forests -- Piney Woods Forests -- Puget Lowlands Forests -- Purus Várzea Forests -- Queensland Tropical Rainforests -- Riau Plantation Forests -- Rio Grande -- Santa Marta Montane Forests -- Scandinavian Coastal Conifer Forests -- Serra do Mar Coastal Forests -- Sierra Madre Pine-Oak Forests -- Sierra Nevada Forests -- Sitka Spruce Plantation Forest -- Solomon Islands Rainforests -- Southeastern Papuan Rainforests -- Southern Atlantic Coastal Forests -- Southwest Australia Woodlands -- Sri Lanka Rainforests -- Stromlo Plantation Forest -- Talamancan Montane Forests -- Tepuis Forests -- Tyrrhenian-Adriatic Sclerophyllous and Mixed Forests -- Valdivian Temperate Forests -- Vanuatu Rainforests -- Wasatch and Uinta Montane Forests -- West Siberian Broadleaf and Mixed Forests -- Western European Broadleaf Forests -- Willamette Valley Forests -- Wingello State Forest -- Yellowstone National Park -- Yukon Interior Dry Forests -- Zagros Mountains Forest Steppe -- Zambezian Cryptosepalum Dry Forests.
Summary:
"Principles of Forestry & Conservation offers a solid grounding in conservation and its history, forestry techniques, and forest biomes. The volume begins with a thorough Editor's Introduction to this important topic by James F. Nicosia. It is then organized into five sections, beginning with a section on general principles before narrowing the focus to fires (both beneficial and harmful), the principal forest biomes, related organizations, and a final large section on some of the world's most well-known and important forest environments. The crucial role forests play in mitigating climate change is discussed in relation to forest management and conservation. Each entry includes relevant Fields of Study, a brief Abstract highlighting the subject matter, a list of Principal Terms, and a list of sources for Further Reading. A comprehensive chronology of the conservation movement is also included toward the end of the volume to help readers see how forestry concepts have played out in the real world"--Publisher's note (page ix).
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