Regional Silviculture of the United States, Third Edition is not a "cookbook", offering pat recipes for solving "typical" silvicultural problems. Instead, it arms those responsible for the development and care of forests with something far more valuable - a rational framework for the analysis of forest data and the development of innovative solutions tailored to specific forest types and the shifting politicoeconomic constraints under which silviculturalists must work. This Third Edition of John W. Barrett's classic has been revised and expanded to encompass a number of important themes which have risen to prominence within silviculture over the past decade, including biodiversity, endangered species, habitat fragmentation, forest