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![[image:] This figure shows the spectrum model of landscape management. With the spectrum model, a landscape contains intensive production forests, colored yellow in the figure, and ecological reserves, colored blue in the figure. These conditions are embedded within a forest matrix that is managed in various ways to conserve biological diversity and manage for timber, such that the matrix color grades from blue to yellow.](../../local-resources/images/spectrum_big.jpg "This figure shows the spectrum model of landscape management. With the spectrum model, a landscape contains intensive production forests, colored yellow in the figure, and ecological reserves, colored blue in the figure. These conditions are embedded within a forest matrix that is managed in various ways to conserve biological diversity and manage for timber, such that the matrix color grades from blue to yellow. Click to return to Research Focus page.")
This figure shows the spectrum model of landscape management. With the spectrum model, a landscape contains intensive production forests, colored yellow in the figure, and ecological reserves, colored blue in the figure. These conditions are embedded within a forest matrix that is managed in various ways to conserve biological diversity and manage for timber, such that the matrix color grades from blue to yellow.
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February 15, 2005