Identifying functional communities for use in forest planning and decisionmaking

Pamela J. Jakes; Thomas E. Fish

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Identifying functional communities for use in forest planning and decisionmaking

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Pamela J. Jakes, Thomas E. Fish

Year:

1998

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Vogelsong, Hans G., comp, ed. Proceedings of the 1997 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1997 April 6 - 9; Bolton Landing, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-241. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 17-20.

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Abstract

Public land managers are searching for frameworks for organizing and displaying social information that will make it useful in forest management and decisionmaking. On the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forests in Wisconsin, managers and researchers have used the concept of functional communities to develop such a framework. Functional communities define geographic areas in and around the Chequamegon-Nicolet where people's perceptions and use of the Forests are similar or compatible.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 1997 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Citation

Jakes, Pamela J.; Fish, Thomas E. 1998. Identifying functional communities for use in forest planning and decisionmaking. In: Vogelsong, Hans G., comp, ed. Proceedings of the 1997 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1997 April 6 - 9; Bolton Landing, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-241. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 17-20.