A Sand County Almanac 310

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Father of Wildlife Management

Wrote Game Management in 1933


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Prolific author of other publications for biologists,agencies, and landowners


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A year through the life of he and his family restoring lifeto a worn out farm in the Sand County part of Wisconsin

Natural history, ecology and management

Reflections on the things of lasting value The quality of landscape

Wisconsin

Illinois and Iowa

Arizona and New Mexico Thinking like a Mountain Chihuahua and Sonora Song of the Gavilan

Oregon and Utah Cheat takes over

Manitoba
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The Ethical Sequence The Community Concept

The Ecological Conscience

Substitutes for a Land Ethic

The Land Pyramid

Land Health and the A-B Cleavage

The Outlook


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The Ethical Sequence Slaves as property to dispose of not right or wrong Extension of ethics is an ecological evolution An ethic is a limitation on freedom

Individual to individual Individual to society The golden Rule and Democracy

As yet no ethic for individual to the land evolutionary possibility andecological necessity The Conservation movement is such an affirmation Community instinct in the making

The Community Concept


Substitutes for a Land Ethic The Land Pyramid


The Outlook


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The Ethical Sequence

The Community Concept Individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts

Soil, water, plants, animals = the land instinct -> compete

Ethics -> cooperate Changes role from conqueror of land community to member and

citizen of it Plant succession steered the course of history w/will be taught that

way once we understand we are a part of the community


Substitutes for a Land Ethic The Land Pyramid


The Outlook


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The Community Concept

The Ecological Conscience Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land Obligations have no meaning without conscience We must extend the social conscience to the land To make conservation easy, we have made it trivial


The Land Pyramid Land Health and the A-B Cleavage

The Outlook
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The Ethical Sequence The Community Concept


Substitutes for a Land Ethic A weakness of conservation based on economics is that most species

have no economic value Not just insect eaters Song birds a matter of biotic right Predators, raptors, and fish-eating birds are member of the community All tree species are members of the forest Marshes, bogs, dunes and deserts are biotic communities Will governmental conservation, like the mastodon become

handicapped by its own dimensions? Or, will a land ethic imply moreobligation to the private landowner

The Land Pyramid


The Outlook
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The Community Concept The Ecological Conscience


The Land Pyramid Not the Balance of Nature the Biotic Pyramid

Soil ->plants -> insects > etc. -> large carnivores

The Pyramid a tangle of food chains including decay

Interdependence between complex structure and smooth functioning

Releases of biotic capital tend to becloud or postpone the penalties of violence

Land in not merely soil

Native plants and animals kept the circuits open others may not Human changes are different and more comprehensive than foreseen

Can the land adjust to the new order can desired alterations be less violent

If prairie f lowers can reflocculate the soils, what service may cranes, otters, condors,and grizzlies provide?


The Outlook


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The Ethical Sequence The Community Concept The Ecological Conscience Substitutes for a Land Ethic

The Land Pyramid Land Health and the A-B Cleavage

A = Land is soil is commodity production B = Land is biota for a broader function Forestry, Wildlife, Agriculture

Man the conqueror vs. man the biotic citizen Science the sword sharpener vs. science the searchlight Land the slave and servant vs. Land the collective organism

The Outlook


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The Ethical Sequence The Community Concept The Ecological Conscience Substitutes for a Land Ethic

The Land Pyramid Land Health and the A-B Cleavage The Outlook

A Land Ethic requires Love, Respect, & Admiration Are our economics and education headed away

A modern is separated from the land by middlemen andgadgets If crops could be raised by hydroponics instead offarming it would suit him well

Synthetics
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The Remnants

Wilderness for Recreation

Wilderness for Science

Wilderness for Wildlife Defenders of Wilderness


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Recreational development is a job not of building roadsinto lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still

unlovely human mind

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