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Book Review: a New Century for Natural Resources Management B OOK R EVIEW A New Century for Natural Resources Management Edited by Richard L. Knight and Sarah F. Bates A BOOK REVIEW BY CRAIG L. SHAFER ANY BOOKS ON CONSERVATION TOP- Chapter 2 by Robert H. Nelson is a ics have poorly integrated chap- longer analysis of the creation, early ac- Mters, are hard to read, are often tivities, and responsibilities of Forest Ser- dull, and end up serving primarily as refer- vice, Bureau of Land Management, ences for a narrow, technical audience. The National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and 1995 Island Press book A New Century for Wildlife Service. Nelson believes the Natural Resources Management, edited by Ri- agencies started out with the progres- chard L. Knight and Sarah F. Bates, suffers sive era ideal of “scientific” manage- from none of this. Good planning and me- ment, and even though their actions ticulous editing resulted in a logical pro- quickly became politicized, the ideal gression of short, interesting, easy-to-read still shapes thinking today. The au- reviews and essays by diverse topic authori- thor argues that the outdated belief that ties. This book ought to attract a very wide economic progress is inevitable with sci- grees in natural readership that includes researchers, natu- ence guiding resource management should resources are awarded annually, ral resource management specialists, land be replaced by a more “values-oriented” the author implies that many students will managers and planners, policy makers, leg- model. not be prepared for the next century, espe- islators, environmentalists, and students. Stan H. Anderson’s Chapter 3 focuses cially as leaders in policy development. The book’s theme—that the way agen- on the concept of “sustained yield” as prac- Chapter 5 by Gloria E. Helfand and Pe- cies view natural resource management ticed in forestry, range, wildlife, and fisher- ter Berck reviews “traditional” concepts in must continue to diverge from the utilitar- ies management. Perhaps deliberately, the natural resource economics. Non-econo- ian tradition of the 19th century—is timely. author avoids dealing with the controver- mists will find it uncommonly user-friendly. The twenty-one chapter volume illustrates sial concept of “sustainability.” They argue that environmental degradation that views and practices in natural resource In Chapter 4, Dale Heine analyzes the results when policies violate basic economic management are always changing; for these history of American natural resources edu- principles like when the Forest Service sells authors, change is too slow because of the cation. He observes that both the western timber on public land below cost. challenges natural resource agencies will “ranger factories” and the midwestern and Next, in Chapter 6, Eric Katz traces the face after the millennium. Organized in eastern schools prepared students for jobs evolution of natural resource ethics. The three sections, the book traces the history with other professionals, all with similar author examines in detail the highly influ- and conflicts related to natural resource backgrounds and speaking the same jargon. ential views of John Locke, the famous 17th management before emphasizing new ap- This type of education, perhaps indoctri- century philosopher, who thought that proaches for the future. nation, he argues, was found at universities nature had value only when used as “prop- The first six chapters focus on U.S. his- claiming to be sanctuaries for independent erty.” Locke’s views have been used to un- tory. Chapter 1 by Curt Meine is a well- thinking. Government employment stan- dermine environmental legislation (Duncan documented account that intermeshes the dards, professional association certification 1996). The author might have given more emergence of forestry, agriculture, range- requirements, and special interest groups emphasis to how Locke’s work has been wildlife-fisheries management, recreation shaped these academic requirements. The interpreted to support conservation. Some and wilderness with the establishment of traditional B.S.-B.A. requirements of the claim it argues for restrictions on private the early federal agencies and the influence 1960s represent the formal educational land use if counter to the public good of Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, and Aldo background of many of today’s senior land (Shrader-Frechette and McCoy 1993). Leopold. Meine demonstrates that the re- managers. But today, “many new students Locke influenced thinking of that age. source concept (e.g., forests, wildlife) arose soon foresee their education as too pre- The second section of the book focuses first; agencies then formed around such scribed, management-production focused, on conflicts. Relying on his uncommon in- concepts, and the academic natural re- too narrow, and impersonal,” causing them sight, David W. Orr’s essay in Chapter 7 is source disciplines came later. to drop out. Although 4,000 university de- about a “sense of place.” Orr begins by giv- 10 • P ARK S CIENCE B OOK R EVIEW ing a personal account of grow- and a vehicle to lobby for their est Service land, the conflict finally ended ing up in small-town western points of view. Today, PEER when Congress added Mineral King to Se- Pennsylvania. He explains, “we has 10,000 paying members and quoia National Park in 1978. no longer have a deep sense of Jeff has moved on. In Chapter 13, John B. Loomis docu- place.” His honesty in writing about Next, in Chapter 10, Winifred B. ments that government cost-benefit analy- the economics of place is persuasive. Kessler and Hal Salwasser describe the ses taking into account more than just “The disorder of ecosystems reflects a prior creation of the 1990 Forest Service “New “marketable goods” was not prominent un- disorder of mind, values, and thought Perspectives” initiative, which they say led til the 1960s and reviews techniques to that…put humanity outside its ecological to the June 1992 adoption of an “ecologi- value such “externalities.” context…. People need healthy food, shel- cal approach” in Forest Service manage- Thomas Michael Powers’ Chapter 14 ter, clothing…a vital civic culture…and ment, a step towards “ecosystem was very enlightening, though heavy in wildness. But they are increasingly offered management.” However, all agencies have places for non-economists. The old “extrac- fantasy for reality, junk for quality, conve- a long way to go before qualifying as ac- tive” economic model may indeed be nience for self-reliance, consumption for knowledged ecosystem management prac- flawed, and Powers provides some easy-to- community, and stuff rather than spirit. titioners, at least based on some definitions understand supportive examples. Relying Business spends $120 billion a year to con- (Grumbine 1994). The December 1995 on graphics, Powers illustrates that the old vince us that this is good…. Our economy Ecological Stewardship Workshop in Tuc- model predicted the economic demise of has not…fostered largeness of heart or son, Arizona (Park Science, some small west- spirit…. And it is not ecologically sustain- 16(2):13-15) was former For- ern communities able.” Orr’s basic message is profound: est Service Chief Jack Ward A New Century for after their resource people will take more responsibility for Thomas’ pet initiative. Natural Resources extraction industries their environment when they sense being Chapter 11 provides Management were curtailed. But part of a human community, a feeling be- Rupert Culter’s thorough this prediction never ing rapidly lost in the United States. account of the role of en- 1995 Island Press happened; some Chapter 8, by Mark W. Brunson and vironmental NGOs (non- 432 pages towns even became James J. Kennedy, discusses dominant use governmental organiza- more prosperous than practiced by the Forest Service, National tions). Quoting John Tables, figures, index before! Powers lists eco- Park Service, the Bureau of Land Manage- Rousch, we learn that Hardcover: nomic trends that may ment, and the Fish and Wildlife Service, only about 50 have ISBN 1-55963-261-5 account for this surpris- why social values changed, and how land budgets in the tens of ing result and then pro- management agencies responded. In later million of dollars. The $55.00 poses an updated decades, our technically trained land man- undisputed giant is Paperback: economic model—one agers found themselves unprepared for the the National Wildlife placing far more emphasis jobs they landed and were surprised at the Federation, whose ISBN 1-55963-262-3 on the degree people value skills required. Examples include public re- 5.3 million support- $32.00 environmental quality in lations, negotiating, writing for the public, ers allowed them their community and sur- skills usually advocated for lawyers, legis- to spend $97 mil- rounding region. Threatened lators, or journalists. In addition, land man- lion in just 1993. The author acknowledges western rural communities reared on this agers after mid-century encountered new tension between NGO amateurism and old model could gain insight here or in the stresses: living with locals in rural western agency-industry professionalism but thinks author’s 1996 book. small towns, new laws giving one agency the gap is closing rapidly. Recent analyses The book’s third and final section em- power over another’s actions, and employ- produced two primary NGO criticisms— phasizes new approaches. Chapter 15 by ees calling for new paradigms. lack of collaboration and little attention to S.T.A. Pickett and R.S. Ostfeld is timely and The latter meshes with Jeff DeBonis’ the economic well-being of local people— analyzes a topic Pickett has addressed be- Chapter 9, which shares his experience as but we learn nothing else about what fore (Pickett et al. 1992). The authors ar- a new Forest Service employee and his sub- NGOs are doing wrong. Since the book gue that the “classical” (or equilibrium) sequent disillusionment with their practice provides a large dose of agency criticism, ecological paradigm has failed and should of overcutting timber.
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