What is an "old growth" forest?

How much forest land is there in the world?

How much forested land is left in the USA?

What are the causes of deforestation?

How much rainforest is lost each year?

How are commercial forests currently managed?

What is clear-cutting and what does clear-cutting do to a forest ecosystem?

What are the alternatives to clear-cutting and what are their benefits and drawbacks?

What is meant by sustainable forestry?

Are currently used forest harvest practices sustainable?

What is "multiple use" of forest land?

How can parks and preserves protect landscapes?

What is Island Biogeography Theory?

How much land should be left in parks or preserves?

What is an edge effect?

What is a wilderness area?

How does the ocean regulate the Earthís climate?

What is a fishery?

How much fishery production is there worldwide?

What is a fish stock?

What is overfishing?

What fisheries have been overfished?

What happened in the case of the Peruvian anchovy fishery collapse?

How are fisheries managed?

How many whales are there remaining in the world?

What did the Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972) do?

• The Rainforest Action Network (RAN). The commonly quoted rate of rainforest deforestation is 1 hectare/sec (or 2.47 acres/sec) which is equivalent to 2 football fields of rainforest/second. This amounts to the area the size of New York City lost per day, or an area the size of Poland lost per year.
  
  
• GAIA Forest Archive. Find out what's happening to rainforests and other forests around the world via the GAIA Forest Archive. These are short news reports about deforestation and politics worldwide.
  
  
• Treevia. A trivia question and answer game about forests and trees provided by the Canadian Forest Service.
  
  
• The Future of Western Forests by Boise Cascade Corporation. This website provides the viewpoint of a large forest product company on how it can achieve sustainability in forest harvests, while minimizing environmental impacts. Compare the diagrams illustrating forest management alternatives presented here (passive v. active management) with those depicted in Chapter 9. Is "passive management" any different than natural ecosystem succession? How do the endpoints of "passive management" and natural succession differ as presented in Chapter 9 and on this website?
  
• Map of the Forest Resources of the USA (US Forest Service). A map of the forested areas of the USA
  
  
• Forestry Websites. Various and sundry websites having to do with forestry.
  
  
• Fishery Statistics of the USA - up to date data on the biomass of fishes caught in the USA. Provided by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
  
  
• Woods Hole National Marine Fisheries Service Home Page A good source of information and pictures about fishes and fisheries of the US Atlantic Coast.

   

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