Ecosystem Management

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Ecosystem Management

• Chapter 5
• APES

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The Crisis
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The Crisis
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The Crisis
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The Crisis
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Why DO WE Have a Responsibility to Manage the
Environment?
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Ecosystem Management

• An integrated new science
• It attempts to integrate
• Ecological, economic, and social goals
• Into a unified management approach.
• THIS IS NEW.

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Principles of Ecosystem Management

• Managing across whole landscapes, watersheds, or
  regions over an ecological time scale

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Principles of Ecosystem Management

• Considering human needs and promoting sustainable
  economic development and communities

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Principles of Ecosystem Management

• Maintaining biodiversity and essential ecosystem
  processes

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Principles of Ecosystem Management

• Utilizing cooperative institutional arrangements

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Principles of Ecosystem Management

• Integrating science and management

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Principles of Ecosystem Management

• Generating meaningful stakeholder and public
  involvement and facilitating collective decision
  making.WHY?

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Principles of Ecosystem Management

• Adapting management over time, based on conscious
  experimentation and routine monitoring.
• US Forest Service
• Bureau of Land Management
• National Park Service

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Goals of Ecosystem Management

• Maintain viable populations of native species in
  situ. (that means.not in a zoo!)

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Goals of Ecosystem Management

• Represent, within protected areas, all native
  ecosystem types across their natural range of
  variation.

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Goals of Ecosystem Management

• Protect essential ecological processes such as
  nutrient cycles, succession, hydrologic
  processes, etc.

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Goals of Ecosystem Management

• Manage over long enough time periods to sustain
  the evolutional potential of species and
  ecosystems.

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Goals of Ecosystem Management

• Accommodate human use and occupancy within these
  constraints.

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Not everyone is on Board.
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The critiques

• We dont understand ecosystems and WE NEVER WILL
• It is arrogant of us to imagine we can manage
  nature
• Immediate needs of people outweigh the needs of
  nature
• This problem will only grow worse as the
  popultation rises.

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The debate lingers

• Pessimisim vs. optimism
• Preservation vs. conservation
• Conservative vs. progressive
• What should we do?
• Or do we do nothing.
• Then what?

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What do you think?
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The chapter test/current events

• It will be Tuesday.
• Wednesday is too short.
• You may turn in HK, and the Aldo Paper
  Wednesday.
• Wednesday we will discuss the aliens activity.
• HK for the break Coral Activity.
• We start research projects when you get back.

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The chapter test what to expect?

• An essay on your land ethic aldo info, be able
  to apply it to the chapter.
• Pick a biome. Be able to talk about it in an
  essay.
• Understand and be able to apply the five Rs
  CASE STUDY
• Be able to apply the ecosystem management plan to
  a case study.
• Of course, matching and M/C