1. Natural Variability as a Management Paradigm
Paleo-Landscape Ecology: Reconstructing the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Pacific Northwest Forests

5. Natural Resources Management Paradigms
Commodity Production
Species Preservation
Natural Variability

6. Commodity Production
Maximize the production of one or more commodities
Minimize impacts on other resources

7. Species Preservation
“…maintain viable populations of all native and desirable non-native species well distributed throughout their range.” (NFMA)
Economic and social consequences are secondary

8. Natural Variability: The Precautionary Principle of Ecosystem Management
Describe the range of stand and landscape-level conditions that existed in these forests prior to Euro-American settlement
Design management plans that maintain the system somewhere within this range