Ecosystem Management Chapter 5 APES

The Crisis:

Why DO WE Have a Responsibility to Manage the Environment?

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

Principles of Ecosystem Management Managing across whole landscapes, watersheds, or regions over an ecological time scale

Principles of Ecosystem Management Considering human needs and promoting sustainable economic development and communities Considering human needs and promoting sustainable economic development and communities

Principles of Ecosystem Management Maintaining biodiversity and essential ecosystem processes Maintaining biodiversity and essential ecosystem processes

Principles of Ecosystem Management Utilizing cooperative institutional arrangements Utilizing cooperative institutional arrangements

Principles of Ecosystem Management Integrating science and management Integrating science and management

Principles of Ecosystem Management Generating meaningful stakeholder and public involvement and facilitating collective decision making….WHY?

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

Goals of Ecosystem Management Maintain viable populations of native species in situ. (that means….not in a zoo!)

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

Goals of Ecosystem Management Protect essential ecological processes such as nutrient cycles, succession, hydrologic processes, etc.

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

Goals of Ecosystem Management Accommodate human use and occupancy within these constraints. Accommodate human use and occupancy within these constraints.

Not everyone is on Board….

The critiques: We don’t understand ecosystems and WE NEVER WILL We don’t understand ecosystems and WE NEVER WILL It is arrogant of us to imagine we can manage nature It is arrogant of us to imagine we can manage nature Immediate needs of people outweigh the needs of nature Immediate needs of people outweigh the needs of nature This problem will only grow worse as the popultation rises. This problem will only grow worse as the popultation rises.

The debate lingers… Pessimisim vs. optimism Pessimisim vs. optimism Preservation vs. conservation Preservation vs. conservation Conservative vs. progressive Conservative vs. progressive What should we do? Or do we do nothing. Then what?

What do you think?

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.

The chapter test: what to expect? An essay on your land ethic: aldo info, be able to apply it to the chapter. 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. Pick a biome. Be able to talk about it in an essay. Understand and be able to apply the five R’s CASE STUDY Understand and be able to apply the five R’s CASE STUDYCASE STUDYCASE STUDY Be able to apply the ecosystem management plan to a case study. Be able to apply the ecosystem management plan to a case study.case study.case study. Of course, matching and M/C Of course, matching and M/C