Low Impact Forestry: Forestry As If the Future Mattered - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971996202 ISBN 13: 9780971996205

Publisher: Maine Environmental Policy Inst, 2003

Synopsis

"Sustainable forestry is right where organic gardening was a generation ago--at the very beginning of working out the techniques and technologies that will let logging thrive at a scale appropriate to both the human and natural communities that depend on the forest. This book is at--if you will pardon the expression--the absolute cutting edge of that process."
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, Hope, Human and Wild, Enough, and other books
If the future really mattered . . .

How would forests be managed to improve, rather than degrade, future timber values?

How would trees be cut to minimize damage to the residual forest?

How would foresters measure success towards minimizing damage?

How would loggers be paid to lower logging impacts?

How would forests be managed in a way that ensures the survival of all native species?

How would woodlot owners be able to afford this type of management?
Low-Impact Forestry: Forestry as if the Future Mattered answers these questions and more. Using Maine as a case study, this book offers forestry goals and guidelines that emphasize quality and value while conserving biodiversity and supporting communities for the long term.

About this title

About the Author

Mitch Lansky is the author of the acclaimed critique of industrial forestry, Beyond the Beauty Strip: Saving What's Left of Our Forests, published by Tilbury House, 1992. He is a founder of the Maine Low-Impact Forestry Project, a writer for the Northern Forest Forum and Atlantic Forestry Review, and a contributor to several books. He was a participant in the creation of the Maine Forest Biodiversity Project's book, Biodiversity in the Forests of Maine: Guidelines for Land Management. He has been on various government committees and task forces, including a legislative Round Table on forest labor and economic issues. Mitch, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is a long-term resident of Wytopitlock, a small forest-based community in northern Maine. For more information on Low-impact forestry, please visit www.meepi.org/lif

Review

"This book is a must read for all who love the forest for all its values and move products from the stump to market. It well written and crafted in a very understandable way for the average landowner. Loggers and foresters will get a lot of useful information and ideas too."
Ron Locke, Maine forester

"Informed dialogue is the only way to avoid the all-too-common disappointments that arise after a harvest is completed. There are no do-overs in this business. The information needed to help you make these informed decisions and how to communicate them are right here in this book."
Bob Matthews, Maine professional logger

"Mitch Lansky has compiled a valuable collection of the latest knowledge available on the subject. If the future really matters, this book may be even more successful than his last."
Wade Prest, Atlantic Forestry Review, Spring 2003

Edition details

• Publisher: Maine Environmental Policy Inst
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0971996202
• ISBN 13: 9780971996205
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Lansky Mitch