ABSTRACT
What wildlife habitat can a healthy ecosystem produce over time that can be used by the current generation and still meet the requirements of forest sustainability (Figure 1.1)? This question is more philosophical than real, with the expectation that reality will occur as a result of new information to set direction and policy. Longterm sustainability of forest habitats can be accomplished by adopting the position of ecosystem management and wisely using adaptive resource management to accomplish goals and objectives. Ecosystem management is more relevant and acceptable to solving problems now than in the past because of new information from research and experience that make it possible to apply. Ecosystem management is a concept directed to examining the whole instead of individual parts. This “holistic” approach proposes that some entities, such as a unit of forest wildlife habitat, have a value independent of and greater than the sum of its parts. The concept is similar to the idea of holistic medicine, which is to treat the whole person instead of separate body organs.
