Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:45:20 -0700 From: Rob D'EonSubject: NOW AVAILABLE: ecosystem management of forested landscapes NOW AVAILABLE Ecosystem management of forest landscapes: directions and implementations. A collection of 26 papers printed in paperback by University of British Columbia Press. Available at UBC bookstore, or send $CAN40/$US30 cheque or money order to: Marlo Miller Kokanee Forests Consulting 201-625 Front Street Nelson, BC V1L 4B6 tel: 250-352-9141 fax: 250-352-1842 marlo@kgis.com Table of Contents: Hamish Kimmins: Respect for nature, an essential foundation for sustainable forest management Paul Alaback: Ecological characteristics and natural disturbances in interior raniforests of northern Idaho David Andison: The natural disturbance program for the Foothills Model Forest, a foundation for growth Dean Apostol: Design your own watershed, top-down meets bottom up in the Applegate Valley Reiner Augustin: Resource planning in the Deer Creek watershed, historical approaches to integrated resource management and how they relate to ecosystem management and strategic priorities Simon Bell: Ensuring the social acceptability of ecosystem management Patrick Daigle: Applied landscape ecology, a summary of approaches Craig Delong: Approximating natural disturbance, where are we in northern British Columbia Robert D'Eon: Landscape patterns in managed forests of southeastern British Columbia, implications to old growth fragmentation David Downing: Predictive ecosystem mapping, applications to the management of large forest areas Peter Duinker: Biodiversity assessment in forest management planning, what are reasonable expectations? Glen Dunsworth: Spatial silviculture investment planning as a means of addressing landscape performance objectives Johnathan Haufler: A process for ecosystem management at a landscape scale Daryll Hebert: Forest ecosystem management without regulation Dan Jepsen: Certification and sustainable forest management, a British Columbia forest industry perspective Marcelo Levy: British Columbia forestry and the Forest Stewardship Council's certification framework John Nelson: The effect of patch size on timber supply and landscape structure Chris Niziolomski: An ecosystem management investment model, applications to planning issues in British Columbia Russ Parsons: Applying the natural variability concept, towards desired future conditions Harry Quesnel: Application of natural disturbance processes to a landscape plan, the dry warm interior cedar-hemlock subzone (ICHdw) near Kootenay Lake, BC Chris Ridley-Thomas: Forest practice certification, options and implicatons Ron Rutledge: Ecosystem management in the Muskwa-Kechika management area, implementing strategic land-use decisions in northern British Columbia Stephen Smith: Do we really want to be stunned by visions Gordon Weetman: Worrying issues about forest landscape management plans in British Columbia Gordon Weetman: A process, a science basis, and scenario planning for forested landcapes