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In a 1989 article, Ben Twight and Fremont Lyden compared the attitudes of national forest managers in the United States in 1981 with those of its major constituents to assess the extent to which the U.S. Forest Service was biased: were the beliefs and values of agency employees concerning resource management more representative of one of two major constituent groups, environmentalists and forest utilizers? The research tested Culhane's (Public Lands Politics: Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press. 1981) theory that the Forest Service occupies a middle ground in its attitudes relative to those of its environmental and utilization constituencies. They concluded that the agency did not; ideologically, district rangers were quite close to the Forest Service's utilizer constituency and relatively far from its environmentalist constituency. Given recent changes in the attitudes of Forest Services managers, the present study sought to answer the question: what do these changes reveal about the ideological position of the agency in 1981 vis a vis its position in 1990, and what are their implications for continuing concerns over the agency's representation of all interest groups? The response to survey questions of four groups—1990 district rangers and district rangers, environmentalists and forest utilizers in 1981—were combined for statistical comparison. Discriminant analyses were conducted to clarify the differences in the groups. Although the hypothesized bias of the Forest Service toward the traditional utilizer position was confirmed, the results also suggested that managers' values and attitudes had changed over the decade. The major issue underlying this bias—preservation versus utilization of resources—no longer adequately represented the agency's position, which has been fragmented into concerns with multiple issues. 相似文献
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Cooperation or conflict? Interagency relationships and the future of biodiversity for US parks and forests 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
R. Edward Grumbine 《Environmental management》1991,15(1):27-37
Cooperation between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and the United States Department of
Interior (USDI) National Park Service is most often advocated to protect biological diversity on national forests and parks,
but the agencies, so far, have done little to implement the biodiversity mandates of such laws as the Endangered Species Act
and the National Forest Management Act. The ideological and political history of the Forest Service and Park Service is explored
to determine the roots of interagency conflicts. Several recent models of cooperative reform are also critiqued and found
to be insufficient to stimulate better working relationships. To protect biodiversity, cooperation must be framed within conservation
biology and must place primary emphasis on ecosystem patterns and processes as well as on individual species. Increased education
of agency managers, ecosystem-level research, local and regional public participation, scientific oversight committees, new
legislation, and enlightened leadership also play important roles. Ultimately, management policies must be reframed within
a context of ecocentric values. 相似文献
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Developing a spatial framework of common ecological regions for the conterminous United States 总被引:5,自引:1,他引:4
McMahon G Gregonis SM Waltman SW Omernik JM Thorson TD Freeouf JA Rorick AH Keys JE 《Environmental management》2001,28(3):293-316
In 1996, nine federal agencies with mandates to inventory and manage the nation's land, water, and biological resources signed
a memorandum of understanding entitled “Developing a Spatial Framework of Ecological Units of The United States.” This spatial
framework is the basis for interagency coordination and collaboration in the development of ecosystem management strategies.
One of the objectives in this memorandum is the development of a map of common ecological regions for the conterminous United
States. The regions defined in the spatial framework will be areas within which biotic, abiotic, terrestrial, and aquatic
capacities and potentials are similar. The agencies agreed to begin by exploring areas of agreement and disagreement in three
federal natural-resource spatial frameworks—Major Land Resource Areas of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources
Conservation Service, National Hierarchy of Ecological Units of the USDA Forest Service, and Level III Ecoregions of the US
Environmental Protection Agency. The explicit intention is that the framework will foster an ecological understanding of the
landscape, rather than an understanding based on a single resource, single discipline, or single agency perspective. This
paper describes the origin, capabilities, and limitations of three major federal agency frameworks and suggests why a common
ecological framework is desirable. The scientific and programmatic benefits of common ecological regions are described, and
a proposed process for development of the common framework is presented. 相似文献
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Ecological disturbances of forests by insects have a complex array of associated human dimensions presenting complications
for natural resource decision making and relationships between stakeholders and managers. This article discusses the human
context of forest disturbances by insects by reviewing four cases of bark beetle forest disturbance from British Columbia
in Canada, Bavarian Forest National Park in Germany, the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, and the north central region of Colorado.
Findings and lessons learned from these studies are outlined along with their implications for managing forest disturbances
by insects in general. Conclusions focus on the need to assess the broad array of impacts and risks perceived by local residents
and the capacity for local action and involvement in managing forest disturbances. Communication and interaction between resource
managers and local stakeholders can facilitate the identification of management priorities and potentially reduce some of
the risks associated with forest disturbances by insects. 相似文献
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A new environmental paradigm has emerged, reflecting a change in the public's understanding of resource sustainability. Forest
policy makers need to be better informed about such changes to achieve economic, social, and environmental objectives in a
manner that balances human needs and aspirations with ecosystem constraints. As an aid to this task, a forest resource accounting
system based on the key concept of natural capital could help reshape forest policies to provide an even wider spectrum of
benefits for both present and future generations by maintaining and enhancing the productive capacity of forest capital. Such
a resource accounting system would provide a tool for integrating multidimensional information requirements in measuring the
health of both forest ecosystems and economic systems. This paper outlines some of the features of this accounting system
and proposes and framework that would integrate economic and ecological characteristics of natural resources. Forest resource
accounting is urgently needed to achieve the sustainability goals of ecosystem management. 相似文献
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In this article, we examine how issues of scale affect the integration of recreation management with the management of other
natural resources on public lands. We present two theories used to address scale issues in ecology and explore how they can
improve the two most widely applied recreation-planning frameworks. The theory of patch dynamics and hierarchy theory are
applied to the recreation opportunity spectrum (ROS) and the limits of acceptable change (LAC) recreation-planning frameworks.
These frameworks have been widely adopted internationally, and improving their ability to integrate with other aspects of
natural resource management has significant social and conservation implications. We propose that incorporating ecologic criteria
and scale concepts into these recreation-planning frameworks will improve the foundation for integrated land management by
resolving issues of incongruent boundaries, mismatched scales, and multiple-scale analysis. Specifically, we argue that whereas
the spatially explicit process of the ROS facilitates integrated decision making, its lack of ecologic criteria, broad extent,
and large patch size decrease its usefulness for integration at finer scales. The LAC provides explicit considerations for
weighing competing values, but measurement of recreation disturbances within an LAC analysis is often done at too fine a grain
and at too narrow an extent for integration with other recreation and resource concerns. We suggest that planners should perform
analysis at multiple scales when making management decisions that involve trade-offs among competing values. The United States
Forest Service is used as an example to discuss how resource-management agencies can improve this integration. 相似文献
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James E. Lotan 《Environmental management》1979,3(1):7-14
The traditional view of fire as a destructive agent requiring immediate suppression is giving way to the view that fire can and should be used to meet land management goals. Thus,fire control is being replaced by the more general concept offire management, which is based on the need to integrate fire policy with land management objectives. The social, economic, and ecologic effects of fire must be evaluated in the selection of land management alternatives.The activities of fire management organizations—fire prevention, control, and use of fire—must respond to needs of land management. Many agencies have developed fire organizations as separate entities that set their own objectives. The many land and resource managers who have recognized the need to incorporate fire considerations into land-use planning have so far lacked the techniques to do so.As a natural process, fire has an important function in forest and range ecosystems. Fire can greatly influence the quantity and quality of resource outputs; it is a two-edged sword that can either harm or benefit our goals, depending upon the complex effects of fire and the nature of our wants.The Fire in Multiple-Use Management Research, Development, and Applications (RD&A) Program was initiated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, at the Northern Forest Fire Lab in Missoula to assist land managers. This profile explains what an RD&A program is; discusses its mission, goals, and approach to the problem; and tells why the approach involves federal laboratories, universities, and private research foundations. 相似文献
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Stephen R. Kessell Meredith W. Potter Collin D. Bevins Larry Bradshaw Bruhe W. Jeske 《Environmental management》1978,2(4):347-363
Recent advances in fire modeling permit quantitative estimations of fire behavior from quantitative inputs that describe the fuel array and conditions, such as weather and site data, under which it will burn. This paper describes the collection, analysis, and stratification of flammable forest fuels data for coniferous forest ecosystems in Montana and then illustrates the resource management application of these data in three areas: the development of the fire behavior model, a determination of the model's sensitivity to input errors as reflected by fire behavior prediction errors, and the development of a fire hazard simulator (TAROT). A new integrated stand simulator, GANDALF, is highlighted.Conclusions center on the need to integrate fire management into the land management planning decision-making process.This work was supported by a USDI National Park Service contract to Gradient Modeling, Inc., a nonprofit research foundation devoted to ecologic research and resource management applications, and by cooperative aid agreements between Gradient Modeling, Inc. and the USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Northern Forest Fire Laboratory (Fire in Multiple Use Management, R, D, and A Program). 相似文献
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Lake Erie water quality has improved dramatically since the degraded conditions of the 1960s. Additional gains could be made,
but at the expense of further investment and reductions in fishery productivity. In facing such cross-jurisdictional issues,
natural resource managers in Canada and the United States must grapple with conflicting objectives and important uncertainties,
while considering the priorities of the public that live in the basin. The techniques and tools of decision analysis have
been used successfully to deal with such decision problems in a range of environmental settings, but infrequently in the Great
Lakes. The objective of this paper is to illustrate how such techniques might be brought to bear on an important, real decision
currently facing Lake Erie resource managers and stakeholders: the choice of new phosphorus loading targets for the lake.
The heart of our approach is a systematic elicitation of stakeholder preferences and an investigation of the degree to which
different phosphorus-loading policies might satisfy ecosystem objectives. Results show that there are potential benefits to
changing the historical policy of reducing phosphorus loads in Lake Erie. 相似文献
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Marc J. Stern Caysie A. Martin S. Andrew Predmore Wayde C. Morse 《Environmental management》2014,53(6):1095-1108
Natural resource planning processes on public lands in the United States are driven in large part by the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which dictates general processes for analyzing and disclosing the likely impacts of proposed actions. The outcomes of these processes are the result of multiple factors, many related to the manifold smaller incremental decisions made by agency personnel directing the processes. Through interviews with decision makers, team leaders, and team members on five NEPA processes within the U.S. Forest Service, this study examines those incremental decisions. Risk, in particular external relationship risk, emerged as a dominant lens through which agency personnel weigh and make process-related decisions. We discuss the tradeoffs associated with agency actors’ emphasis on this form of risk and their potential implications for adaptive ecosystem management and organizational performance. 相似文献
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ELLISON BA 《Environmental management》1999,23(4):429-439
/ This paper explores the new politics of western water policy through an examination of the Animas-La Plata water project and implementation of the Endangered Species Act. It is suggested that the focus of western water programming has shifted from the source of distributed funds, the United States Congress, to the agencies originally created to deliver federal benefits because funding for new project construction has not been forthcoming. Under this new system, members of Congress continue to excite their constituents with promises of money for new project starts, while the administrative agencies perform the myriad duties needed to keep these projects alive. The result is that political objectives have replaced operational/management objectives in administrative processes. In this case, the author demonstrates how resource managers in the Bureau of Reclamation manipulated hydrological analysis to control administrative process, why their manipulation was unfair, and perhaps illegal, and why biologists from the US Fish and Wildlife Service accepted the analysis. While ostensibly protecting all interests, the result is that none of the objectives of federal water programming are achieved. KEY WORDS: Environmental management; Administrative politics; Water policy; Endangered Species Act; Animas-La Plata, Bureau of Reclamation 相似文献
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The general perceptions of prescribed burning were elicited from forest users for an area that has been subject to this form
of land management for at least 20 years. The largest group consisted of local residents living in and around the Wombat State
Forest with two smaller groups of students from a nearby university campus and local professional land managers. A questionnaire
was given to each participant in order to explore how the forest was used, to determine the level of knowledge of burning
in the targeted forest and Victoria and the perception of the appearance, effectiveness of protection, and accessibility to
the forest after prescribed burning. Generally all groups had similar responses with community members having stronger views
on the effectiveness and practicalities of prescribed burning, whereas students were more neutral in their opinions. All participants
claimed knowledge of prescribed burning activities within Victoria, but fewer had experience of planned fires in the Wombat
State Forest. All groups agreed that areas that had not been recently burned had a better appearance than those that had,
but this result may have included a range of value judgments. Land managers had a greater understanding of the ecological
importance of season and timing of burning; however, some students and community members were equally knowledgeable. Prescribed
burning did not impede access to the forest, nor did smoke from prescribed burns pose any great problem. The majority of the
participants felt that the amount of prescribed burning done in the forest was adequate for engendering a feeling of protection
to life and property, yet many were still suspicious of this management practice. These initial findings indicate several
areas in which further research would be useful including the efficacy of education programs for community members and improved
communication of burn plans by land managers. 相似文献
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Creating and sustaining community capacity for ecosystem-based management: Is local government the key? 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Recently, collaborative approaches to natural resource management have been widely promoted as ways to broaden participation and community involvement in furthering the goals of ecosystem management. The language of collaboration has even been incorporated into controversial legislation, such as the US Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. This research examines collaboration and sharing management responsibility for federal public land with local communities through a case study of the Ashland Municipal Watershed in southern Oregon. A policy sciences approach is used to analyze community participation and institutional relationships between the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, and local city government in the planning processes of five land management actions occurring over a 7-year period. The knowledge gained from examining differing approaches to planning and decision making in the Ashland watershed is used to suggest future planning processes to develop and sustain the community capacity necessary to support implementation of community-based ecosystem management. 相似文献
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Sound ecosystem management meshes socioeconomic attitudes and values with sustainable natural resource practices. Adaptive management is a model for guiding natural resource managers in this process. Ecosystems and the societies that use them are continually evolving. Therefore, managers must be flexible and adaptable in the face of uncertainty and lack of knowledge. To couple good science to management, it is important to develop goals, models, and hypotheses that allow us to systematically learn as we manage. Goals and models guide the development and implementation of management practices. The need to evaluate models and test hypotheses mandates monitoring, which feeds into a continuous cycle of goal and model reformulation. This paper reviews the process of adaptive management and describes how it is being applied to oak/pine savanna restoration at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge as an illustration. Our aim is to help managers design their own adaptive management models for successful ecosystem management. 相似文献
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/ The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) was intended to promote a systematic, comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to planning and decisionmaking, including the integration of the natural and social sciences and the design arts. NEPA critics have cited three key shortcomings in its implementation: (1) a lack of engagement with the NEPA process early in the planning process through interdisciplinary collaboration; (2) a lack of rigorous science and the incorporation of ecological principles and techniques; and (3) a lack of emphasis on the Act's substantive goals and objectives. In recent years and independent of NEPA, a policy of ecosystem management has been developed, which represents a fundamental change from a fragmented, incremental planning and management approach to a holistic, comprehensive, interdisciplinary land and resource management effort. We postulate that by incorporating ecosystem management principles in their planning and decisionmaking, federal agencies can address the shortcomings in NEPA implementation and move closer to NEPA's intent. A case analysis of EISs prepared by the USDA Forest Service before and after adopting an ecosystem management approach supports our hypothesis. 相似文献
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Gary L. Larson 《Environmental management》1980,4(2):105-110
Since the presentation of the Leopold Report (Leopold et al. 1963) to the United States Secretary of the Interior, recommendations in the document for managing natural park resources on the ecosystem level have been included in the management policies of the National Park Service. In many instances, however, management programs have continued to focus on individual resource problems, without apparent concern for the ecological consequences on ecosystems. Without knowledge of the interrelationships of ecosystem components, solving one problem may result in other resource problems. Graphic approaches are presented as potential tools to view these complex interrelationships relative to the needs of the resource manager. Interpreting the dynamics of aquatic systems is emphasized. 相似文献
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Simulating Spatial and Temporal Context of Forest Management Using Hypothetical Landscapes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
/ Spatially explicit models that combine remote sensing with geographic information systems (GIS) offer great promise to land managers because they consider the arrangement of landscape elements in time and space. Their visual and geographic nature facilitate the comparison of alternative landscape designs. Among various activities associated with forest management, none cause greater concern than the impacts of timber harvesting on the composition, structure, and function of landscape ecosystems. A timber harvest allocation model (HARVEST) was used to simulate different intensities of timber harvest on 23,592-ha hypothetical landscapes with varying sizes of timber production areas and different initial stand age distributions. Our objectives were to: (1) determine the relative effects of the size of timber production areas, harvest intensity, method used to extract timber, and past timber harvest activity on the production of forest interior and edge; and (2) evaluate how past management (in the form of different initial stand age distributions) constrains future timber production options. Our simulations indicated that the total area of forest interior and the amount of forest edge were primarily influenced by the intensity of timber harvest and the size of openings created by harvest. The size of the largest block of interior forest was influenced most by the size of timber harvests, but the intensity of harvest was also significant, and the size of nontimber production areas was important when harvests were numerous and widely dispersed within timber management areas, as is often the case in managed forests. Stand age-class distributions produced by past harvest activity limited the amount of timber production primarily when group selection was used, but also limited clear-cutting when recent harvest levels were high.KEY WORDS: Simulation modeling; Timber harvest; Historical context; Spatial context; Landscape pattern; Forest interior; Forest edge 相似文献