During the past twenty-five years, North American forestry has
received increasingly vigorous scrutiny. Critics including the
environmentalists, environmental scientists, representatives of
public interest groups, and many individual citizens have expressed
concerns about forestry's basic assumptions and methods, as well as
its practical outcomes. Criticism has centered on such issues as
the exploitation of forests for timber production, the reduction
and fragmentation of old-growth habitats, the destruction of
biodiversity, the degradation of grasslands through grazing
practices, lack of government attention to recreation facilities,
silvicultural methods like clearcutting and the use of herbicides
and pesticides, the exportation of industrial forestry techniques
to other parts of the world, and the use of public monies to
provide services for private resource companies, as in the creation
of logging roads. This rising tide of public scrutiny has led many
foresters to suspect that their \u0022contract\u0022 with society
to manage forests using their best professional judgment has been
undermined. Some of these professionals, as well as some of their
critics, have begun to reexamine their old beliefs and to look for
new ways of practicing forestry. Part of this reflective process
has entailed new directions in environmental ethics and
environmental philosophy. This reader brings together some of the
new thinking in this area. Here students of the applied
environmental and natural resource sciences, as well as the
interested general reader, will discover a rich sampling of
writings in environmental ethics and philosophy as they apply to
forestry. Readings focus on basic ethical systems in forestry and
forest management, philosophical issues in forestry ethics, codes
of ethics in forestry and related natural resource sciences such as
fisheries science and wildlife biology, Aldo Leopold's land ethic
in forestry, ethical advocacy and whistleblowing in government
resource agencies, the ethics of new forestry, ecoforestry, and
public debate in forestry, as well as ethical issues in global
forestry such as the responsibilities of forest corporations,
environmentalists, and individual wood consumers. The volume
contains materials from the founders of forestry ethics, such as
Bernhard Fernow, Giford Pinchot, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold; from
such organizations as the Society of American Foresters, the
Wildlife Society, the American Fisheries Society, Forest Service
Employees for Environmental Ethics, and the Ecoforesters group, in
addition to the writings by a variety of well-known environmental
philosophers and foresters, including Holmes Rolston, Robin
Attfield, Lawrence Johnson, Michael McDonald, Paul Wood, James E.
Coufal, Raymond Craig, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Jeff DeBonis, Jim
L. Bowyer, Alasdair Gunn, Doug Daigle, Alan G. McQuillan, Stephanie
Kaza, Alan Drengson, Duncan Taylor, and Kathleen Dean Moore.
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