FRST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Superorganism, Anthropocentrism, Free Object
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Describe roles of forests and forestry in global sustainability. Discuss basic issues in the sustainability of forest management. Interdisciplinary approach: forests are being impacted by people everyday they are assemblage of trees, other plants, animals, and fungi they are constantly interacting with the climate and the hydrology of the world. The sustainability of natural ecosystems can be defined as the dynamic equilibrium between natural inputs and outputs, modified by external events such as climate change and natural disasters. 1800s agriculture (much of it cotton) , severe soil degradation. Early 1900s agriculture abandonment- reverts to pine forests. Early 2000s 4th rotation of forests, soil almost recovered. Measuring impacts of intensive forestry in us south: soil severely degraded and eroded by cotton plantations in 18th and 19th centuries. Natural invasion of pine (and some planting) started restoring sites since site quality is improving how do you measure site degradation of intensive pine management.
