Health of North American forests: Stress and risk assessment
- Yale Univ., New Haven CT (USA)
The 1980s will be remembered by forest professionals as a decade of intense and widespread societal concern for the vitality and integrity of forest systems. Daily reports of tropical deforestation and temperate forest decline have heightened social consciousness of forest health. It is therefore appropriate, as we enter the 1990s, to assess the health of our forests and propose new initiatives in this critically important area. Making generalizations about the health of North American forests is difficult because of the extraordinary diversity of forests, management regimes, and stress factors. This overview article summarizes forest health fundamentals, significant health risks, and priorities in future forest health management for temperate forests of the United States.
- OSTI ID:
- 7101659
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Forestry; (USA), Vol. 88:1; ISSN 0022-1201
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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