CONTENTS AUTHORS TITLE PAGE J. Lamar Beasley National Trends and the Art of Silviculture ................................................................................... 1 Robert C. Szaro Biodiversity and Biological Realities ............................................................................................. 5 Kurt R. Wiedenmann Shasta Costa: From a New Perspective ....................................................................................... 9 Wyman C. Schmidt Clinton E. Carlson James W. Byler A Wedding of New Perspectives and Research in the Inland WestSomething Old, Something New, Something Blue ..................................................................... 14 Russell T. Graham The Practice of Silviculture and New Perspectives .................................................................... 19 William D. Torgersen The Bureau of Land Management Approach to New Perspectives ........................................... 23 James O. Howard Thomas A. Snellgrove Putting the "H" Word Into Perspective ........................................................................................ 25 Bob Naumann Jim Chew Catherine Stewart Target Stands-a Silvicultural Vision of the Future .................................................................... 29 Richard Everett Sandra Martin Monte Bickford Richard Schellhaas Eric Forsman Variability and Dynamics of Spotted Owl Nesting Habitat in Eastern Washington ................................................................................................................... 35 Jim Fenwood Using Silviculture to Achieve a Desired Future Condition for Biological Diversity in the Southern Region ...............................................................................40 W. D. Shepperd C. E. Troendle C. B. Edminster Linking Water and Growth and Yield Models to Evaluate Management Alternatives in Subalpine Ecosystems .................................................................. 42 John R. Toliver Forested Wetlands: Where Silviculture is Critical to the Future of Silviculture .............................................................................................................................. 49 David A. Marquis Susan L. Stout Multiresource Silvicultural Decision Model for Forests of the Northeastern United States ........................................................................................................ 54 Robert G. Haight Implications of New Perspectives on Growth and Yield Models ................................................. 62 Steve Patterson Douglas-fir Beetle: Dealing With an Epidemic ............................................................................ 73 Jimmy S. Walker Ronald E. F. Escano Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Management for Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers and Other Resources .......................................................................................... 77 David K. Leach Making Precommercial Operations Commercial ........................................................................ 84 James A. Fierst Cris Rusch Stewardship Contracting Concepts ............................................................................................ 89 Roger D. Fight Thomas D. Fahey Stuart Johnston Timber Quality and Pruning: An Analysis of Management Regimes for the Siuslaw National Forest ................................................................................... 93 1991 National Silviculture Workshop Attendees ......................................................................................................................... 96