A specific list of attributes considered essential or desirable
goals for management (Table 1) together with an inventory of
current conditions provides an information base for assessing
which strategies are best suited to achieve the goals (e.g. Schmoldt
et al., 2001). Besides ecological constraints, concerns about costs,
social acceptability and short-term negative impacts of necessary
practices are important, and may influence the decision whether to
use a passive, reserve-based approach towards increasing oldgrowth,
or an active management approach. Kuuluvainen et al.
(2002) provide some good examples of active management