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| The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World | 
| Author: Jonathan S. Adams
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 857988
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 267
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0807085375
Dewey Decimal Number: 333
EAN: 9780807085370
ASIN: 0807085375
Publication Date: February 15, 2007
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 This Approach Has Limits... August 10, 2008
The approach described by this book has limits. Without legal requirements for endangered species preservation and restoration, private landowners will be reluctant to take steps that threaten the "bottom line" or maximum profit potential of their operations.
Ranching and other land use business is a BUSINESS. You can't expect a business to make an economic sacrifice for environmental reasons alone.
In the case of the Big Hole Watershed Committee, this once promising group closed ranks during the Bush II years. Because the group no longer had to worry about an Endangered Species Act listing under the anti-environmental Bush administration, the group talked about "restoring fluvial Arctic grayling" but in fact grayling populations plummeted ever close rtoward extinction under the Watershed Committee's water management. Without generous earmark appropriations from former (discredited) Senator Conrad Burns, the group would not even exist.
 Finally, a soution that matches the magnitude of the problem November 27, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After reading dozens of nature conservation books, it's a pleasure to read one that stands above the rest. The Future of the Wild is not "more of the same". It prescribes a new direction in conservation -- one where the size of the solutions matches the size of the problems. Adams paints a compelling vision of how conservation can succeed, then provides real world examples of how these ideas can be implemented on the ground. It's an important message, eloquently delivered.
Tree Huggers Beware July 4, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the best book ever on conservation of natural resourses--should be read by all: those who believe in individual property rights, those who believe in preserving our natural resources, and those who know that tradeoffs have to be made, but do not know how to articulate their beliefs.
A 'must read' for any serious ecologist.
 An important topic for everyone to understand better May 15, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book presents the approaches and challenges of conservation efforts over the last few decades. I wish it had been more tightly edited -- it was repetitive and a bit tedious to read.
Essentially the points of the book are:
1) The best approaches for conserving species is more of a decision based on values than hard science. The complexity of understanding everything that affects a species is too much to expect science to "know all the answers".
2) Conservaton efforts based on today's isolated parks and reserves is inadequate because they're too small. Finding ways to expand their "effective boundaries" is important.
3) The influence of man and the interplay of nature in and around parks and reserves is important to understand well enough to make effective conservation choices.
4) It's imperative to include local communities in the discussion of the issues and obtaining committment to the solutions.
A 'must' for any seriously concerned about the fate of wild animals on the planet March 7, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The conservation of isolated parks and reserves alone will fail, but there's an alternative option: one that The Future Of The Wild: Radical Conservation For A Crowded World covers. Conservationist Adams ranges across the U.S. in showing how to tie together scattered remnants of this continent's wild places. Stories about the species endangered and the possibilities of wildlife conservation corridors which can help connect and save them make for chapters which blend conservation history and biology with tales of successful partnerships among groups concerned with land and wildlife management. The Future Of The Wild: Radical Conservation For A Crowded World is a 'must' for any seriously concerned about the fate of wild animals on the planet.
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