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This assessment is intended to help those who wish
to learn more about the issues, questions, and approaches facing forest
managers in the northern Oregon Coast Range, and to provide a review of
past research and where it has led us. The intended audience is researchers,
forest managers, resource specialists, and interested citizens. While it
is assumed that most people reading this have some familiarity with federal
forestry issues and approaches in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990's,
I have tried to keep jargon to a minimum, and have provided a glossary
for some key concepts. This assessment is by no means an exhaustive synthesis
and compilation of past and existing research in the Coast Range--rather
it is focused on the issues and questions facing managers and scientists
of the Northern Coast Range Adaptive Management Area. I hope the pages
that follow stimulate further ideas and discussions about the future of
public forest-lands in this area.