ABSTRACT
Natural disturbances to forests around the world are on the rise, constituting a bellweather of global change associated with a warming climate (Parry et al. 2007; Weed et al. 2013). The rapid loss of mature forest cover as a result of wind storms, forest res, and insect outbreaks often begs for a management response, much like that designed to reverse ecological degradation induced by resource exploitation. That management response may be as simple as an effort to recover economic value from the dead and damaged trees (i.e., salvage logging; Prestemon et al. 2013), or as complex as detailed prescriptions to enhance resilience at stand and landscape levels (Puettmann et al. 2009).
