Forestry-Wildlife: Whither the Future

Abstract

Conditions in areas with higher ratios of people to trees than North America suggest changes in North American perspectives of forestry-wildlife relations. These conditions, as they were presented at a recent IUFRO meeting, are summarized. Implications of these conditions for North America are that our forestry-wildlife problems will acquire an increasing social dimension, while solutions will become increasingly varied and complex. The old-growth forests still present in North America will permit a degree of flexibility in management now lacking in much of Europe.