Water Quality, Fisheries, and Aquatic Biodiversity Under Two Alternative Forest Management Scenarios for the West-side Federal Lands of Washington, Oregon, and Northern California

Résumé du livre

Decisions in the next few years will determine the long-term future of forests and forest-dependent ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. The widespread incidence of declining and depressed fish populations across the region, including coastal areas where dams are not present and logging is the primary land use activity, indicates that aquatic ecosystems are highly stressed. Based on a review of recent scientific literature and forest planning documents, continuation of the present and Forest-Service-proposed policies will likely accelerate a crisis of extinction and loss of biotic diversity, triggering large-scale Endangered Species Act listings of fishes and other aquatic organisms