ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at land-use intensity in landscape design. It discusses three categories of landscapes: forested; fragmented, where forestry and agricultural are in separate blocks; and agroforestry, where agricultural activities are either integrated or in close association with silviculture. A forested landscape without people and with minimal human interference requires little in the way of landscape design. As a governing force, nature does just fine without outside help. With people come silvicultural opportunities. Silvicultural treatments are chosen to maximize wood output without compromising other goals. Within forest patches, gaps, either single or multi-tree, can extend the silvicultural and, by extension, the habitat possibilities. The raising of trees integrated with and/or immediately adjacent to crops and grazing leads to both common and unexplored variants of silviculture. Some spatial and temporal patterns are better than others at accommodating cross-landscape ecological and silvicultural needs.
