An Ecosystems Approach to Natural Resources Management
http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/for/for75/for75.htm
Our nation—and especially Kentucky—has an abundance of renewable natural resources, including timber, wildlife, and water. As the nation grows and prospers, we extract natural resources through agriculture, forestry, mining, urban or industrial expansion, and other developments. Ultimately, we affect the amount of wild lands that native plants and animals need for survival.
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Basic Ecological Renovation: Problems and Activities
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=140
In ecological renovation, assessment is a critical first step. Once the assessment has been properly completed, a renovation program can be designed to restart, accelerate, or broaden ecological processes, enrich or maintain biological units, and conserve...
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Behind the Wall of Green
http://www.state.tn.us/agriculture/wallofgreen/index.html
This publication is an introduction to forest conservation biology in Tennessee with a focus on trees, forests, and forest management and conservation.
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Community Forestry
http://www.ncfcnfr.net/pubs.html#case
Resources and case studies on landowners managing multiple properties cooperatively.
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Defining Ecological Management Units
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=115
The world is visualized through objects and processes of change. Some changes are so slow or so fast that we can not see them. Some changes cover global scales while other changes influence one drop of water. Change involves a myriad of interconnected and...
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Ecological Renovation in Communities: Conceptual Underpinnings
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=137
The places where we live remain connected to natural life support processes. With land development, safety, and cultural issues, these lifelines become more strained. As we cleanse and sterilize our environment, the connections with other life, and associ...
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Ecological Renovation: Assessment Steps for Development Sites
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=139
Once a management unit has been defined, and we understand how it functions at the most basic level, we can then begin a site assessment process. To ecologically renovate an ecoplex, an assessment process must be used that can identify resource inputs and...
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Economic Benefits of Mississippi’s Forestry
http://www.cfr.msstate.edu/fwrc/bmpbrochure2.pdf
Improper management of forest acres may cause streams and rivers to become polluted. Because many rivers and streams originate and flow through our forests, an effective and economical erosion and pollution control method was needed.
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Ecoplex Form, Structure and Function: Ecological Renovation Targets
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=138
One concept that must be developed and appreciated in ecological renovation of community sites is how we delineate space. Where are the edges of a management unit? We must clearly understand the impacts of defining and visualizing biotic islands, corridor...
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Ecosystem Management (EM) as a Basis for Forest Stewardship on Private
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/Extension/fweco.htm
This paper first explains what Ecosystem Management means, and how it has become such an important topic of forest management. Thereafter,
examples are shown of how forest landowners can incorporate aspects of EM on their lands.
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