Download or read book Stand Tending Impacts on Environmental Indicators written by Nancy Densmore and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stand Tending Impacts on Environmental Indicators written by Julee A. Greenough and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stand tending treatments include the spacing of juvenile trees (pre-commercial thinning), commercial thinning of older trees, fertilizing, and pruning. This report notes the impact of stand tending on environmental values.
Download or read book Stand Tending Impacts on Environmental Indicators written by Nancy Densmore and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Idaho Panhandle National Forests N F Bussel 484 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Developing Stand Density Management Regimes written by British Columbia. Forest Practices Branch and published by British Columbia, Forest Practices Branch. This book was released on 1999 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stand density management is the process of controlling tree density within a stand to achieve desired objectives. Stand density management practices include the spacing of planted trees, pre-commercial thinning, and commercial thinning. A sound density management prescription must consider three elements of prediction: biological responses of the stand to treatment, economic implications of the treatment, and forest-level effects of the treatment. This document provides essential information on each of these elements, and provides a structured decision process for making site-specific density management prescriptions. Sections of the document cover the biological concepts of timber production, economic principles of timber production, forest planning considerations, the decision process, and density management planning tools. Includes glossary.
Download or read book An Overview of Environmental Indicators written by J. A. Bakkes and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia written by A. Ceska and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original work makes unprecedented use of some of the most important research to date in plant ecology. It is a guide for assessing site quality, that is, the climate and soil of particular forest and non-forest ecosystems. Foresters have long been interested in using plants as indicators in predicting the growth performance of reforestation sites, but the data have not been readily available. Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia fully discusses how indicator plants are recognized and demonstrates how indicator plants can be used in site diagnosis. The book presents colour illustrations and descriptions of 419 selected vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens of coastal British Columbia. Indicators with similar values are grouped into indicator species groups which are used to evaluate site quality. These data are supplemented by information on geographic distribution, life-form, shade tolerance, and other ecological characteristics of the species. Three methods are given on how to use indicator plants for the purpose of site diagnosis. Indicator Plants of Coastal British Columbia summarizes original research in a format which both students and practitioners will find easy to use.
Download or read book Proceedings written by Alberta. Alberta Environmental Protection and published by Alberta, Environmental Protection c1999.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecological Indicators for the Nation written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-05-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental indicators, such as global temperatures and pollutant concentrations, attract scientists' attention and often make the headlines. Equally important to policymaking are indicators of the ecological processes and conditions that yield food, fiber, building materials and ecological "services" such as water purification and recreation. This book identifies ecological indicators that can support U.S. policymaking and also be adapted to decisions at the regional and local levels. The committee describes indicators of land cover and productivity, species diversity, and other key ecological processesâ€"explaining why each indicator is useful, what models support the indicator, what the measured values will mean, how the relevant data are gathered, how data collection might be improved, and what effects emerging technologies are likely to have on the measurements. The committee reviews how it arrived at its recommendations and explores how the indicators can contribute to policymaking. Also included are interesting details on paleoecology, satellite imagery, species diversity, and other aspects of ecological assessment. Federal, state, and local decision-makers, as well as environmental scientists and practitioners, will be especially interested in this new book.
Download or read book Using the Right Environmental Indicators written by Julie L. Hass and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding and using indicators that are most suited for tracking progress, raising awareness and supporting analysis is a challenge. Indicators need to be used in appropriate contexts and should ideally be fit-for-purpose. For example, indicators which are best used for awareness-raising cannot be used for monitoring policy goals. This report presents a short review of different indicators typically encountered by environmental policy makers. General advice is provided regarding their uses. In the second part of the report, an overview of the environmental-economic accounting work of the Nordic statistical institutes is presented. Lessons learned from the development of these accounts as well as ideas for future work are described. These types of environmental accounts provide a framework for developing information about the connections between the economy and the environment. The study was commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers and conducted by the national statistical agencies in the Nordic countries, led by Statistics Norway and Statistics Sweden.
Download or read book Final environmental impact statement for the land and resource management plan Fremont National Forest written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Environmental Impact Statement written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainability Indicators written by Tomás Hák and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific measures by which decision makers and the public can judge progress. Sustainability Indicators defines the present state of the art in indicator development. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the science behind various indicators, while placing special emphasis on their use as communications tools. The contributors draw on their experience as academics and practitioners to describe the conceptual challenges to measuring something as complex as sustainability at local, regional, national, and global scales. The book also reviews existing indicators to assess how they could be better employed, considering which indicators are overused and which have been underutilized. Sustainability Indicators will help planners and policy makers find indicators that are ready for application and relevant to their needs, and will help researchers identify the unresolved issues where progress is most urgently needed. All readers will find advice as to the most effective ways to use indicators to support decision making.
Download or read book Appendices Draft Environmental Impact Staement for the Proposed Revised Land and Resource Management Plan Rio Grande Nationaal Forest written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition written by Peter C. Schulze and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental disasters, like Cleveland's Cuyahoga River catching fire, point to the need for measures that can improve environmental performance of processes, products, business practices, and linked industrial systems. This book explores the most productive relationship between measures of environmental performance and measures of ecosystem conditions and reviews current approaches.
