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Revised! FOR-176, a 7-page illustrated fact sheet by Sarah F. Ashton, Bruce Hull, Rien M. Visser, and Martha C. Monroe, describes this bottom-up, voluntary approach to implementing coordinated ecosystem management among multiple owners of fragmenting interface forestland — types of cooperatives, benefits, costs and reservations, funding. Includes suggested reading and references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, August 2008.
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