Conservation Policy in Time and Space: Lessons from Divergent Approaches to Salvage Logging on Public Lands

Conservation Policy in Time and Space: Lessons from Divergent Approaches to Salvage Logging on Public Lands

A 50-yr precedent was reversed in 1995 when, following a powerful windstorm, salvage logging was disallowed in the protected Adirondack Park State Forest Preserve of New York, United States. Damage from a similar windstorm in 1950 had provoked massive salvage operations, approved by the New York Sta...

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Main Authors: George Robinson, Jeffrey Zappieri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 1999-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
Adirondack Park
forest disturbance
forest health legislation
public land use
salvage logging
science and public policy
wildfire
windstorm.
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol3/iss1/art3/

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