Papers originally presented at a conference held Jan. 1992. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sustainable forestry or sustainable forests -- Ecosystem perspective on sustainable forestry and new directions for the U.S. National Forest System -- Institutional constraints on sustainable resource use -- Fundamentals of ecosystem management with applications -- Sustainable forest ecosystems in the northern hardwood and conifer forest region -- Landscape ecosystem classification -- Limitations on ecosystem management in the Central Hardwood Region -- Need and potential for ecosystem management in forest of the inland west -- Ecosystem management -- Values, institutions, and sustainable forestry -- Sustainable forestry -- Defining an economics of sustainable forestry -- Sustainable forestry, an adaptive social process -- Spotted owls and sustainable communities -- Leadership and the individual.