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The Northwest Forest Plan, the First 10 Years (1994-2003)

其他書名	Socioeconomic Monitoring of Results. Public values and forest management
出版	U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=__9VswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋One of the Northwest Forest Plans socioeconomic goals was to protect the forest values and environmental qualities associated with late-successional, old-growth, and aquatic ecosystems. In Volume V we address the topic of forest protection from the socioeconomic perspective. A literature review revealed that between 1990 and 2002 there has been surprisingly little change in Pacific Northwest residents views of how Pacific Northwest forests should be managed. Throughout this period, research findings indicate that people support forest management to provide a broad set of multiple uses and both economic and environmental benefits. Nevertheless, there has consistently been a proenvironment leaning, with the majority favoring environmental over economic management objectives when asked to make a choice between them. Throughout the study period, the belief that active forest management improves forest health has predominated. However, clearcutting has consistently been unpopular, and the majority have favored old-growth protection. New forestry techniques that are not intensive are more socially acceptable. The monitoring team also conducted interviews with community members and agency employees from four case-study areas to document their perceptions of how well the Plan has protected forest values and environmental qualities associated with late-successional, old-growth, and aquatic ecosystems on federal forest lands. The team also documented interviewees issues and concerns relating to federal forest management. The most positive Plan effects were believed to be associated with the protection of aquatic ecosystems. Most interviewees did not distinguish Plan effects on older forests from those on forest ecosystems more generally. Although the Plan brought an end to earlier forest management practices that many considered ecologically destructive, most people interviewed did not believe federal forests were currently healthy. They believed silvicultural activity was necessary for keeping forests healthy and that not enough had occurred during the first decade of the Plan. This led to concerns about fire, insects, and disease and frustration that needed forest work was not creating local jobs. Timber harvest, forest health, and jobs were among the biggest issues of concern to community interviewees. Although interviewees overwhelmingly believed that the Plan had emphasized forest protection over community well-being, their comments reflect a perception that healthy forest ecosystems and healthy community economies can and should be linked and that those links are currently weak.