Managing Southern Forests for Wildlife and Fish A Proceedings

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A PROCEEDINGS EDITED BY JAMES Gs DICKSON AND 0s EUGENE MAUGHANP r e f a c e Southern f o r e s t s a r e very p r o d u c t i v e f o r w i l d l i f e a s w e l l a s wood f i b e r . User r e c r e a t i o n demands f o r game and nongame w i l d l i f e and f i s h c o n t i n u e t o i n c r e a s e a s human p o p u l a t i o n s grow i n t h e s u n b e l t . The = i n d e t e m i n a n t of w i l d l i f e p o p u l a t i o n s i s s u i t a b i l i t y of f o r e s t h a b i t a t and t h e primary manipulator of t h e h a b i t a t i s t h e f o r e s t e r . F o r e s t r y d e c i s i o n s and p r a c t i c e s determine h a b i t a t s u i t a b i l i t y f o r w i l d l i f e c o r n u n i t i e s and u l t i m a t e l y w i l d l i f e p o p u l a t i o n s . With t h i s p u b l i c a t i o n we p l a n t o demonstrate how s o u t h e r n f o r e s t s can be managed f o r t h e myriad of w i l d l i f e s p e c i e s . General t o p i c s i n t h e p u b l i c a t i o n r e l a t i n g t o w i l d l i f e communities i n c l u d e economics of a c c o m o d a t i n g w i l d l i f e and f i s h , impact of s p e c i f i c f o r e s t r y p r a c t i c e s , s p e c i a l t e c h n i q u e s , agency p o l i c y and p r a c t i c e s , and p r o s p e c t s f o r t h e f u t u r e . Although e a r l i e r d r a f t s of t h e s e papers were e d i t e d , t h e c o n t e n t of each f i n a l manuscript was t h e r e s p o n s i b i l i t y of each a u t h o r . W e thank Ronald T h i l l , Alexander Zale, Hugh Black, Lowell H a l l s , Roger Baker, George H u r s t , and James Neal f o r a s s i s t a n c e i n reviewing t h e s e manuscripts.T h i s p u b l i c a t i o n is from t h e proceedings o f t h e W i l d l i f e and F i s h Ecology Technical S e s s i o n , 1986 S o c i e t y of American F o r e s t e r s N a t i o n a l Convention, Birmingham, Alabama.James G. Southem Forests for Wildlife and Fish," is an intriguing one, It incorporates elements of a basic fact, of a general area of professional controversy, and of an ever-increasing public interest. It is a fact that southern forests, under almost any sort of forestry program, are major producers of wildlife and the sources of a huge proportion of all the fresh water supplying southern streams and lakes. Nothing short of wholesale conversion to agriculture could alter this situation significantly.The disputes between foresters, wildlife professionals, and water resource managers over relative priorities among timber, wildlife and water are legendary and intensely frustrating to all sides. Public sentiment seems generally favorable toward trees, animals and fish of all sorts, is largely uniformed and appears to increase in passion as wealth and education and urbanization of the human population grow. Further, the spectrum of groups who have legitimate interests in forests, water and wildlife grows more and more varied every year.In this situation, one would hope that there would be grounds for common cause among the natural resource ...

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Salud de los bosques de galería y de los ecosistemas ribereños

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