Discussant's Comments: Forestry Stream

Abstract

(From the text):

"I have been attending forestry sessions, but in talking with many of you between sessions and in the evenings, I have gotten the sense that much of what Im hearing as the important messages for people doing work on forest management would apply across resources. I do not feel that there is anything particularly carboniferous or woody or leafy about the messages I have extracted from the forest sessions, and for the most part I will state these messages in their general form rather than in terms specific to forests.

"My first group of observations has to do with doing what we do better than before. The keywords here seem to be DATA, CONTEXT, and TIME."