Arranges quotations by the conversationist best known as the author of 'A Sand County Almanac' into broad categories of conservation, science and practice, conservation policy, and conservation and culture.

Provides essays, exercises, summaries, learning tools, and definitions focusing on the issues surrounding ecosystem management.

The Ecosystem Management Instructor's Manual offers a complete guide for professors interested in using Ecosystem Management as a textbook. It will help to answer many of the questions a teacher might have about incorporating Ecosystem Management into an existing course or designing a new course around it.The Instructor's Manual begins with an overview of the purpose and philosophy of courses designed around the book, and discusses the overall strategy of the book as well as the book's many features. It offers a detailed explanation of the purpose and content of the landscape scenarios along with an explanation of how to use them. The authors also offer suggestions for supplementing information contained in the scenarios.In addition, the Instructor's Manual presents a chapter-by-chapter overview of the book with: learning objectives for each chaptermajor points the chapter is trying to makequestions, comments, or concerns that may arise from the chapter material or teaching approachesspecific guidance for conducting each exercise, including how to introduce or conduct the exercise, what to expect from students, desired solutions, and points to be made teaching devices to help illustrate the chaptersample test questionssupplemental web sites

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In Aldo Leopold and an Ecological Conscience ecologists, wildlife biologists, and other professional conservationists explore the ecological legacy of Aldo Leopold and his A Sand County Almanac and his contributions to the environmental movement, the philosophy of science, and natural resource management. Twelve personal essays describe the enormous impact he has had on each author, from influencing the daily operations of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the creation of a land-use ethics guide for Forest Service personnel, to much needed inspiration for continuing on in today's large, complex and often problematic world of science. Here is Aldo Leopold as a mentor, friend, and companion and an affirmation of his hope that science will continue to be practiced in the cause of conservation.

Product Description: The forests of the southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming are part of this region's natural heritage, providing priceless ecological value, essential natural resources, numerous opportunities for outdoor recreation, refuge for native biological diversity, and solitude to Americans who want to escape our crowded cities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Stewardship Across Boundaries fills that gap in the literature, addresses the complex biological and socioeconomic impacts of both public and private land boundaries in the United States. With contributions from natural resource managers, historians, environmentalists, political scientists, and legal scholars, the book: develops a framework for understanding administrative boundaries and their effects on the land and on human behavior; examines issues related to different types of boundaries - wilderness, commodity, recreation, private-public; presents a series of case studies illustrating the efforts of those who have cooperated to promote stewardship across boundaries; and synthesizes the broad complexity of boundary-related issues and offers an integrated strategy for achieving regional stewardship...read more

Product Description: This book explores the changes that are leading to a new century of natural resources management. It places the current situation in historical perspective, analyzes the forces that are propelling change, and describes and examines the specific changes in goals, policy, and practice that are transforming all aspects of natural resources management...read more