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An Ecological Aesthetic for Forest Landscape Management

Paul H. Gobster
Landscape Journal, March 1999, 18 (1) 54-64; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.18.1.54
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Although aesthetics and ecological sustainability are two highly regarded values of forest landscapes, practices developed to manage forests for these values can sometimes conflict with one another. In this paper I argue that such conflicts are rooted in our conception offorest aesthetics as scenery, and propose that a normative, “ecological aesthetic” based on the writings of Aldo Leopold and others could help resolve conflicts between aesthetic and sustainability values. I then offer suggestions on how we might advance an ecological aesthetic in policy and planning programs, on-the-ground management, and research and theory development in landscape aesthetics.

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