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- Title
Private Forest Habitat cor At-Risk Species: Where Is It and Where Might It Be Changing?
- Authors
Stein, Susan M.; McRoberts, Ronald E.; Nelson, Mark D.; Mahal, Lisa; Flather, Curtis H.; Alig, Ralph J.; Comas, Sara
- Abstract
Owned by individuals, families, corporations, and other private groups, private forests account far almost 60% of all foresfiand in the conterminous United States and provide critical habitat for wildlife, including over 3,700 at-risk plant and animal species. Extensive areas of private forest and other land covers hove experienced increased housing development in recent years, with numerous implications for wildlife conservation. Twenty-eight percent of all private forests are under corporate ownership and provide important wildlife habitat. In some areas of the country, large amounts of private forest under corporate ownership are being sold and, in same cases, subdivided, with consequent implications for at-risk species conservation. Sponsored by the US Forest Service, the Forests on the Edge (FOTE) protect uses geographic information systems to identify areas across the United States where private forests provide important services that might be detrimentally affected by increased housing and other threats. This article presents the results of FOTE research on the importance of private forests in general, and corporate forests in particular, to at-risk species. It also identifies areas across the country where future housing development an private forests could further reduce wildlife habitat. Results indicate that private forests and private corporate forests in the West Coast states, parts of the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts, as well as interior areas of the Southeast provide habitat far a large number of at-risk species and that these areas are also among those where private forests are most likely to experience increased housing development.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRIVATE forests; HABITATS; HOUSING development; WILDLIFE conservation; UNITED States. Forest Service; GEOGRAPHIC information systems
- Publication
Journal of Forestry, 2010, Vol 108, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
0022-1201
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jof/108.2.61