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General Technical Report PNW-GTR
An Assesment of Growth and Development Paths for Southwest Alaska
Alaska Communities and Forest Environments
Alaska Communities and Forest Environments
Author: Linda E. Kruger
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2008-05
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781422310724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This problem analysis describes a variety of human-resource interaction issues & identifies related social science R&D needs that serve as the foundation for the Alaska Communities & Forest Environments Team within the Pacific Northwest Research Station. The document lays out a research agenda that focuses on understanding relations between human communities & natural resources. The agenda is divided into four sub-topics: (1) communities in transition; (2) collaborative planning & stewardship; (3) sustainable tourism & outdoor recreation; & (4) cultural orientations to & uses & values of natural resources, including traditional knowledge, indigenous property rights, & tenure systems. Illustrations.
Ecosystems and Sustainable Development VII
Author: C. A. Brebbia
Publisher: WIT Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1845641949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development (ECOSUD) held in Chianciano Terme, Italy, in 2009.
Alaska's Lumber-drying Industry
Author: David L. Nicholls
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A survey determined that installed dry kiln capacity in Alaska more than doubled to an estimated 220 thousand board feet (mbf) within 4 years (2000-2004). This increased ability to produce dry lumber and value-added products resulted from industry efforts to obtain federal funding to support a dry kiln grant program. This report reviews grantees' progress in implementing grant supported projects and their impact on the production capabilities of the Alaska lumber drying industry. Data were collected in early 2005 by using a standard set of questions asked of 19 dry kiln owners. Much of the growth in drying and value-added processing capacity has been concentrated in southeast Alaska where there has been the greatest dry kiln investment. During 2004, the estimated volume of lumber dried in Alaska was 813 mbf, whereas potential annual capacity was estimated to be almost 6,600 mbf. This indicates that Alaska producers are drying just over 12 percent of their potential capacity. Factors that will increase the future production of value-added forest products in Alaska include a continuing supply of economically priced timber, the ability of the industry to support a reasonably priced grading service, and the ability of producers to move value-added products to domestic and export markets.
Alaska's Timber Harvest and Forest Products Industry, 2005
Author: Jeffrey M. Halbrook
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report traces the flow of timber harvested in Alaska during calendar year 2005, describes the composition and operations of the state's primary forest products industry, and quantifies volumes and uses of wood fiber. Historical wood products industry changes are discussed, as well as trends in timber harvest, production, and sales of primary wood products.
National Forest Economic Clusters
Forests as Complex Social and Ecological Systems
Author: Patrick J. Baker
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-05-17
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 3030885550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Professor Chadwick Dearing Oliver has made major intellectual contributions to forest science and natural resources management. Over the course of his career he has actively sought to bring research and practice together through synthesis, outreach, and capacity-building. A common thread throughout his career has been complexity and how we as a society understand and manage complex systems. His work on forest stand dynamics, landscape management, and sustainability have all focused on the emergent properties of complex ecological and/or social systems. This volume celebrates a remarkable career through a diverse group of former students and colleagues who work on a wide range of subject areas related to the management of complex natural resource systems. Over the past decade there has been considerable discussion about forests as complex adaptive systems. Advances in remote sensing, social methods, and data collection and processing have enabled more detailed characterisations of complex natural systems across spatial and temporal scales than ever before. Making sense of these data, however, requires conceptual frameworks that are robust to the complexity of the systems and their inherent dynamics, particularly in the context of global change. This volume presents a collection of cutting-edge research on natural ecosystems and their dynamics through the lens of complex adaptive systems. It includes contributions by a wide range of authors from academia, NGOs, forest industry, and governmental organisations with diverse perspectives on forests and natural resources management. Each chapter offers new insights into how these systems can be made more resilient to ensure that they provide a diversity of ecological and social values well into the future. Together they provide a robust way of thinking about the many challenges that natural ecosystems face and how we as society may best address them.
