Keeping it wild: Asking the right questions to guide wilderness management

Brian Cooke; Beth Hahn; Peter B. Landres

Treesearch

Keeping it wild: Asking the right questions to guide wilderness management

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Brian Cooke, Beth Hahn, Peter B. Landres

Year:

2018

Type:

Science Bulletins and Newsletters

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 29. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 7 p.

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Abstract

Wilderness management can be tricky. The conservationist Aldo Leopold, who is considered by many to be the father of wildlife ecology and the U.S. wilderness system, was probably thinking about this when he said, “All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must Wilderness managers in North Cascades National Park opted for chemical treatments to remove invasive fish species. see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.”

Keywords

Science You Can Use, SYCU, wilderness management, human-related environmental stressors, climate change, non-native species invasions, environmental remediation, wilderness restoration

Citation

Cooke, Brian; Hahn, Beth; Landres, Peter. 2018. Keeping it wild: Asking the right questions to guide wilderness management. Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 29. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 7 p.