Northwest Forest Plan - The First 20 Years (1994-2013): Status and Trends of Late-Successional and Old-Growth Forests.

摘要

This is the third in a series of periodic monitoring reports on LSOG or late-successional and old-growth (older) forest status trends on federally administered lands since implementation of the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP or the Plan) in 1994. The objective of this monitoring is to determine if the NWFP is providing for conservation and management of older forests as anticipated. This report focused on the amount, distribution, and spatial arrangement of older forests across the NWFP landscape, and how these have changed as a result of disturbance and in-growth starting with the year of the NWFP analyses in 1993.