Sustained Yield

<body> <p align="center"><big><strong><font color="#008000">SUSTAINED YIELD</font></strong></big></p> <p> </p> <p>SUSTAINED YIELD IS THE FUNDAMENTAL (BUT LARGELY UNACKNOWLEDGED) FOREST HEALTH AND BIODIVERSITY THREATENING PROBLEM WITH PROFESSIONAL FORESTRY</p> <p><font COLOR="#AF0000">WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE LIQUIDATION-CONVERSION PROJECT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA</font> </p> <p>THIS SITE IS AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE SUSTAINED YIELD DEGRADATION OF FORESTS VISIBLE </p> <p>Restricting human harvesting of forests to the annual increment or growth is a noble goal but sustained yield rearranges forests in an illusory attempt to sustain timber yields. Sustained yield (SY) forestry planning fragments forest ecosystems and radically changes age classes and species composition. SY was an evolution from unregulated, wasteful timber mining, but timber sustainability is the goal not ecological sustainability.</p> <p><font FACE="Helvetica" COLOR="#AF0000">"EM (ecosystem management) technology will probably emerge as more important to people than either the technology of the communications revolution or biotechnology because of its potential usefulness in guaranteeing a livable environment. . . .</font></p> <p><font FACE="Helvetica" COLOR="#AF0000">The major change in forestry thinking wrought by EM has been the abandonment of the concept of a stable flow of wood from the land as a universally dominant management objective."</font></p> <p><font FACE="Helvetica">John Gordon, Yale University</font> </p> <p align="center"><a href="sustainedyield/contents.htm">Contents</a></p> </body>