The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan: The Wild Science of Saving Old Growth Ecosystems

by K. Norman Johnson, Jerry F. Franklin, Gordon H. Reeves

Tree sitters. Logger protests. Dying timber towns. An iconic species on the brink. The Timber Wars consumed the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early1990s and led political leaders to ask scientists for a solution. The Northwest Forest Plan was the result.

For most of the twentieth century, the central theme of federal forest management in the Pacific Northwest had been logging old-growth forests to provide a sustained yield of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870712241
• ISBN13: 9780870712241
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"