Adaptive Management Wood Availability and Habitat Availability

Abstract

Adaptive management uses well-defined feedback loops to design actions and track the effects resulting from actions. The adaptive process maximizes the managers' learning about the system, and is consequently a safe approach to initiating management in complex systems. By its nature adaptive management requires quantitatively explicit hypothesis about system function and structure. This requirement is both the greatest limitation to its use and the greatest benefit. The emerging application of the adaptive approach in the control of wood availability is discussed and comparison is drawn to the control of wildlife habitat availability. Key words: Renewable Resource Management. Management Planning Forest Management Methods.