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Why not Manage our Forests to be Better than Nature?

Kevin L. O'Hara. Professor of Silviculture. Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Humans have long sought suitable models or representations to guide natural resource management, including forestry. These models represent the values of societies and the relationships of societies to nature. For example, the “close-to-nature” forestry movement in central Europe is an attempt to emulate nature with forestry or silvicultural treatments. This is not an uncommon approach, […]