To set the context for the book, the chapter summarizes the management history in the Pacific Northwest (with a description of the forests), the forest sector, and the conceptual model underlying discussions of compatibility in producing multiple products without reducing other values of forests. A ...

The Wood Compatibility Initiative (WCI) addresses options that may increase the compatibility between wood production and other societal values derived from forestlands. The set of 25 papers included in this proceedings presents the summaries of WCI-related research, compiled from a workshop held...

The USDA Forest Service has had a long standing presence in utilization, economics, and social sciences research and development activities. The magnitude and diversity of these activities have changed as the questions and the people asking them have changed over the past century. These changes...

The implementation of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in the United States is strongly influenced by U.S. forest products markets and the numerous management decisions made by individual landowners and managers. These decisions are influenced by a mix of market incentives and regulatory actions ...

When the Northwest Forest Plan for the Recovery of the Northern Spotted Owl and associated species was established in 1994, it shifted federal land management emphasis toward non-commodity outputs. Since then, forest practices on state land in Oregon and Washington (USA) were also modified to...

This bulletin aims to update and expand the 1992 survey of research findings by Lowell and colleagues, providing an ecological context for the findings, using a more reader-friendly format, and including extensive citations so readers can get indepth information on particular topics. The intention...

The production possibility approach to compatibility research can be useful to forest policymakers in two ways. It can make tradeoffs between competing forest uses explicit so that policymakers can make informed policy judgments. It can help identify situations where there appears to be substantial ...

The intuitive explanation for why an economy grows or develops often involves the ways in which land (resources), labour, and capital interact. This paper reviews the literature for what is known about the different pathways for economic growth and development in resource-abundant regions. The...

Forest management activities such as thinning may benefit one understorey species while being detrimental to another. With site-specific and careful management, understorey resources can be produced with commercial value, while maintaining an economically viable overstorey tree crop. Timber and...