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The Protestant Voice in American Pluralism (review)

tinctly and purposely different. First, the synthesis is the result of three years of discussion among the researchers themselves about what should be included. Second, the text is mercifully bereft of much of the usual scientiac documentation, which has already appeared in the published literature, thereby enabling the authors to write more broadly about the signiacance of their work. Third, unlike many other traditional research compilations, the editors themselves have been active contributors and participants. Forests in Time divides the New England analysis into ave sections: forest ecology and change, regional history and landscape dynamics, legacies of historical change, understanding forest ecosystem dynamics, and lessons from the forest and its history. More than two-thirds of the book deals with the history and landscape dynamics of New England’s forests. We learn, for example, that in this human-dominated region, there is little left that is truly natural. We are reminded that many desired conservation goals, such as preserving pastoral viewsheds, often turn out to be more cultural than ecological and actually require continued human intervention. We were encouraged to and that in one central-Massachusetts study area, 40 percent of the land is already receiving a measure of protection, but sobered by the observation that the pattern of these protected lands was often haphazard, making the action collectively less effective than it might have been. The bottom-line anding of the synthesis is the need for New England to incorporate landscape change as an integral component of its long-term planning, and to start to all the void between local and global concerns with actions at intermediate and/or regional scales. The emphasis should be on protecting functioning ecological systems, not just preserving individual species, assemblages, or sites. Thus, Forests in Time is a treatise as much for planners and policymakers as for scientists. Charles H. W. Foster John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University