Technical Guide to Forest Wildlife Habitat Management in New England

DeGraaf et al. detail management practices for creating forest habitat conditions that maintain or enhance wildlife diversity in New England. Intended for professional foresters and other natural resource managers, the book describes the potential responses of wildlife to silvicuture, including species of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, in addition to discussions of habitat structure and relationships, silvicultural methods, and nonforested habitats. The book is a revision of New England Wildlife: Management of Forested Habitats from 1992. The authors are research wildlife biologists and a research silviculturist with the US Forest Service in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

RICHARD M. DEGRAAF is chief research wildlife biologist and leader of the wildlife habitat research unit, Northeastern Research Station, Amherst, Massachusetts. He has conducted research on breeding birds, small mammals, and amphibians in major forest cover types in New England and on wildlife habitat associations in the White Mountains for the past thirty years. MARIKO YAMASAKI is research wildlife biologist with the northern hardwood research unit, Northeastern Research Station, Durham, New Hampshire. Her background includes work as a wildlife biologist in the National Forest System and research on timber-wildlife habitat relationships in New England for more than twenty-five years. WILLIAM B. LEAK is research silviculturist with the northern hardwood research unit, Northeastern Research Station, Durham, New Hampshire, and has studied the effects of site and silvicultural treatment on forest development in northern New England over the last five decades. ANNA M. LESTER is a wildlife biologist with the wildlife habitat research unit, Northeastern Research Station, Amherst, Massachusetts. She has extensive experience with habitat models and using visualization software and growth projection models to create virtual managed landscapes under various silvicultural systems.