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Current Attitudes Toward Forests
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Wilderness restoration
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“untouched lands”
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Restoring/conserving cultural
landscape
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“Mow the fields, maintain the open
spaces”
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Increased Management
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“contiguous tracts, controlled
harvest”
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Foster, 2002.
*image: http://www.environment.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/28D885B0-5E07-43FC-A0BE-3C1A447B1AAA/0/tygartsstormdamage.jpg,
http://www.alanbauer.com/photogallery/SouthCascades/Trail%20through%20old%20growth.jpg
, http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/gov/dpwes/images/environmental/openspaces.gif