Salvage Logging in the Montane Ash Eucalypt Forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria and Its Potential Impacts on Biodiversity
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Suggestions for environmental policies that protect biodiversity include prohibiting salvage logging from certain areas such as old-growth stands; varying the intensity of salvage logging to retain biological legacies in affected areas; and decreasing the physical disturbances that occur with salvage logging.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2006
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Virtual Conservation: How the European Union is Turning a Blind Eye to Its Vanishing Primeval Forests
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The conservation status of the Bialowieza Forest, located on the Belarus-Poland border, is used to illustrate challenges facing the European Union in designing and implementing environmental policy. An assessment is made regarding the forest's continued vulnerability to logging interests.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2005
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Preemptive and Salvage Harvesting of New England Forests: When Doing Nothing Is a Viable Alternative
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Arguments are made against salvage logging after natural disturbances, such as invasive pests and windstorms. It is posited that these are natural occurrences that provide landscape and habitat heterogeneity.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2006
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