Jackson Forest Forum

  November 25, 2009.  A primary mission for the Jackson Advisory Group (JAG) is to recommend how the landscape of Jackson Forest should be managed to meet the goals of research and demonstration, restoration, watershed and ecological health, timber management, and recreation. The Landscape Committee has designated areas to be managed for restoration to older [...]

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Vince Taylor Notes on JAG Landscape Meeting of March 13, 2009 Related to Overall Landscape Allocations The following are not comprehensive notes on the meeting but focus on the (major) part of the meeting that was related to developing principles for silvicultural allocations across the landscape. Much of the content consists of reasonably literal transcription [...]

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[The following article was written for inclusion in the Spring Issue of Forest and River, a publication of the Trees Foundation] I last reported on Jackson Forest developments in the middle of 2008. I skipped the year-end update because it seemed that a holding pattern had developed, and there was not significant new news. There [...]

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Notes on a Meeting of the Landscape Committee of the Jackson Advisory Group, February 4, 2009 Introduction This is the second in a related series of documents on applying the concept of “Natural Forestry” at Jackson State Forest. The concept is introduced and defined in Part 1. The key idea behind Natural Forestry is simultaneously [...]

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Recently the concept of “Natural Forestry” as a management strategy for Jackson State Forest has gained prominence in discussions of the Jackson Advisory Group (JAG), the independent advisory group charged with developing recommendations for long-term management of the forest. Mike Jani, co-chair of the Landscape Committee of the JAG coined the term and gave a [...]

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Introduction The Jackson Advisory Group (JAG) was appointed by the Director of Cal Fire and the Board of Forestry and given as its primary task the development of a long-term management plan for Jackson State Forest. The JAG began meeting in mid-2008. Ever since it has been grappling with the question of how much of [...]

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