Ecosystem ManagementEcosystem Management

Chapter 5Chapter 5

APESAPES

The Crisis:The Crisis:

The Crisis:The Crisis:

The Crisis:The Crisis:

The Crisis:The Crisis:

Why DO WE Have a Responsibility Why DO WE Have a Responsibility to Manage the Environment?to Manage the Environment?

Ecosystem ManagementEcosystem Management

An integrated new scienceAn integrated new science

It attempts to integrate:It attempts to integrate:

Ecological, economic, and social goalsEcological, economic, and social goals

Into a unified management approach.Into a unified management approach.

THIS IS NEW.THIS IS NEW.

Principles of Ecosystem Principles of Ecosystem ManagementManagement

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

Principles of Ecosystem Principles of Ecosystem ManagementManagement

Considering Considering human needs human needs and and promoting promoting sustainable sustainable economic economic development development and and communitiescommunities

Principles of Ecosystem Principles of Ecosystem ManagementManagement

Maintaining biodiversity and Maintaining biodiversity and essential ecosystem processesessential ecosystem processes

Principles of Ecosystem Principles of Ecosystem ManagementManagement

Utilizing Utilizing cooperative cooperative institutional institutional arrangementarrangementss

Principles of Ecosystem Principles of Ecosystem ManagementManagement

Integrating science and managementIntegrating science and management

Principles of Ecosystem Principles of Ecosystem ManagementManagement

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

Principles of Ecosystem Principles of Ecosystem ManagementManagement

Adapting management over time, Adapting management over time, based on conscious experimentation based on conscious experimentation and routine monitoring.and routine monitoring.

US Forest ServiceUS Forest Service Bureau of Land ManagementBureau of Land Management National Park ServiceNational Park Service

Goals of Ecosystem ManagementGoals of Ecosystem Management

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

Goals of Ecosystem ManagementGoals of Ecosystem Management

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

Goals of Ecosystem ManagementGoals of Ecosystem Management

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

Goals of Ecosystem ManagementGoals of Ecosystem Management

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

Goals of Ecosystem ManagementGoals of Ecosystem Management

Accommodate human use and Accommodate human use and occupancy within these constraints.occupancy within these constraints.

Not everyone is on Board….Not everyone is on Board….

The critiques:The critiques: We don’t understand ecosystems and WE We don’t understand ecosystems and WE

NEVER WILLNEVER WILL

It is arrogant of us to imagine we can It is arrogant of us to imagine we can manage naturemanage nature

Immediate needs of people outweigh the Immediate needs of people outweigh the needs of natureneeds of nature

This problem will only grow worse as the This problem will only grow worse as the popultation rises.popultation rises.

The debate lingers…The debate lingers…

Pessimisim vs. optimismPessimisim vs. optimism Preservation vs. conservationPreservation vs. conservation Conservative vs. progressiveConservative vs. progressive

What should we do?What should we do?Or do we do nothing.Or do we do nothing.

Then what?Then what?

What do you think?What do you think?

The chapter test/current eventsThe chapter test/current events

It will be Tuesday.It will be Tuesday.Wednesday is too short.Wednesday is too short.You may turn in HK, and the Aldo You may turn in HK, and the Aldo

Paper Wednesday.Paper Wednesday.Wednesday we will discuss the aliens Wednesday we will discuss the aliens

activity.activity.HK for the break: Coral Activity.HK for the break: Coral Activity.We start research projects when you We start research projects when you

get back.get back.

The chapter test: what to expect?The chapter test: what to expect?

An essay on your land ethic: aldo info, An essay on your land ethic: aldo info, be able to apply it to the chapter.be able to apply it to the chapter.

Pick a biome. Be able to talk about it Pick a biome. Be able to talk about it in an essay.in an essay.

Understand and be able to apply the Understand and be able to apply the five R’s five R’s CASE STUDYCASE STUDY

Be able to apply the ecosystem Be able to apply the ecosystem management plan to a management plan to a case study.case study.

Of course, matching and M/COf course, matching and M/C