Alaska's Forests & Wildlife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alaska's Forests & Wildlife write by . This book was released on 1995. Alaska's Forests & Wildlife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Alaska's Forests and Wildlife
Alaska's Forests and Wildlife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alaska's Forests and Wildlife write by Alaska Department of Fish and Game Staff. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Alaska's Forests and Wildlife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers tree and forest types, tree structure, interrelationship between living and non-living elements of forest ecosystems, food webs, impact of glaciers and fires to forest succession, human impacts on and uses of forest and forest products, and forest conservation.
Tongass Odyssey
Tongass Odyssey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tongass Odyssey write by John Schoen. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Tongass Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tongass Odyssey is a biologist’s memoir of personal experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer, and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The largest national forest in the nation, the Tongass encompasses the most significant expanse of intact old-growth temperate rainforest remaining on Earth. Tongass Odyssey is a cautionary tale of the harm that can result when science is eclipsed by politics that are focused on short-term economic gain. Yet even as those problems put the Tongass at risk, the forest also represents a unique opportunity for conserving large, intact landscapes with all their ecological parts, including wild salmon, bears, wolves, eagles, and other wildlife. Combining elements of personal memoir, field journal, natural history, conservation essay, and philosophical reflection, Tongass Odyssey tells an engaging story about an enchanting place.
Southeast Alaska Forests
Southeast Alaska Forests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southeast Alaska Forests write by Sally J. Campbell. This book was released on 2004. Southeast Alaska Forests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication presents highlights of a recent southeast Alaska inventory and analysis conducted by the Pacific Northwest Research Station Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (USDA Forest Service). Southeast Alaska has about 22.9 million acres, of which two-thirds are vegetated. Almost 11 million acres are forest land and about 4 million acres have nonforest vegetation (herbs and shrubs). Species diversity is greatest in western hemlockAlaska cedar closed-canopy forests, in mixed-conifer open and woodland forests, and in open tall alder-willow shrub type. Of the forest land, 4.1 million acres are classified as timberland (unreserved productive forest land). About 4.4 million acres of forest land are reserved from harvest; the majority of this reserved land (85 percent) is on the Tongass National Forest (USDA Forest Service). The volume of timber on timberland was estimated at 21,040 million cubic feet; the majority of volume88 percentis on the Tongass National Forest. Seventy-four percent of timberland acres and 84 percent of the growing-stock volume is in sawtimber stands older than 150 years, with western hemlock or western hemlockSitka spruce mix predominating. Most timberland in southeast Alaska is of relatively low productivity, producing less than 85 cubic feet per acre per year. For most timberland acres, average annual growth exceeds average annual mortality and harvest.
Tongass Odyssey
Tongass Odyssey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tongass Odyssey write by John Schoen. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Tongass Odyssey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tongass Odyssey is a biologist’s memoir of personal experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer, and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The largest national forest in the nation, the Tongass encompasses the most significant expanse of intact old-growth temperate rainforest remaining on Earth. Tongass Odyssey is a cautionary tale of the harm that can result when science is eclipsed by politics that are focused on short-term economic gain. Yet even as those problems put the Tongass at risk, the forest also represents a unique opportunity for conserving large, intact landscapes with all their ecological parts, including wild salmon, bears, wolves, eagles, and other wildlife. Combining elements of personal memoir, field journal, natural history, conservation essay, and philosophical reflection, Tongass Odyssey tells an engaging story about an enchanting place.
