PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gobster, Paul H.
TI  - An Ecological Aesthetic for Forest Landscape Management
AID  - 10.3368/lj.18.1.54
DP  - 1999 Mar 20
TA  - Landscape Journal
PG  - 54--64
VI  - 18
IP  - 1
4099  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/18/1/54.short
4100  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/18/1/54.full
AB  - 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.