Public Acceptance of Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Factors Influencing Support
Table 3
Support for and confidence in management plans and managing agencies (percent).
Statements
Strongly agree/agreea
I would support this approach if management plans are critically reviewed by scientists.
76
My support will be based on knowing the type of harvesting techniques planned.
75
I support the landscape-level historical disturbance approach described above.
58*
I have confidence that agency managers know enough about forest and stream ecosystems to carry out disturbance-based management.
53
I am concerned about economic losses from timber sales that leave live and dead trees.
31
a Response options on a 4-point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree with an option to indicate not sure. More than 20% of respondents indicated not sure for this statement.
