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Bioregional assessment is the effort to build knowledge about a region prior to decision-making and management action; it is an essential part of ecosystem management which gives science and scientists a crucial role in the policy-making process. Bringing together experts on a range of issues to assess existing ecological and social conditions - and providing a base of knowledge from which to develop policy options and management decisions, this volume offers a tool to anyone involved or interested in ecosystem management.

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Frederick J. Swanson is a research geologist with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, in Corvallis, Oregon, and a Forest Service lead scientist for the ecosystem research team based at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the Oregon Cascade Range. He has been a leader of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Long-Term Ecological Research program based at the Andrews Forest since 1980.Throughout a thirty year career, Dr. Swanson's research has focused on interactions of geophysical processes with forest and stream ecosystems in mountain landscapes under both natural conditions and influences of land management, including roads. His interest in interactions of science and policy is reflected in part by his co-editorship of the book Bioregional Assessments: Science at the Crossroads of Management and Policy (Island Press, 1999). He holds a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, both in geology. Jerry Franklin is Professor of Ecosystem Analysis, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Franklin is co-author of Conserving Forest Biodiversity, Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century, Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences, and Towards Forest Sustainability, all from Island Press.

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