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Modern Wild Faunal Resource Management
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Cross Current: Solutions vs. Continuance

 Management of faunal resource systems requires an attitude rarely stressed in modern society. There are few quick-fixes; no completion dates; no delivery parties. There is little gratification; things do not come in TV intervals.

Management is like owning a dairy herd. There is hard work and it may not be interupted. Continuous is the word for it, not continual.

There are projects, programs, and adjustments, but even these are expected and part of the normal flowing series of operations.

It is easy to become pessimistic within the milieu.

The work was once said to be like that of the medical doctor (Aldo Leopold in Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There. It may be more like nursing in a former place for the mentally ill. The primary task is to prevent the patients from hurting each other. There are no cures.

There is adaptive work to be done, improving feeddback.

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