A unit of Lasting Forests Sustained forests; sustained profits evolving since March 30, 1999

The manager is not mindless and surely knows their own personal preferences for recreation, types of wildlands, and social experiences. They have fond recollections of family, memories of frightening situations, and family loyalties of various types -- some death-bed promises.

The manager may own land. That is an exception and not discussed here.

The ethical manager serves clients. They state their wants and needs (hereinafter "demands"). He or she agrees to achieve them to their best ability within the context of current law. If their wants and needs excede the ability of the environment to meet them (even after treatment at the limit of the budget), then they must communicate this. It is good if the client will adjust their demand. Often they will not. The ethical manager must then leave or make it clear that they will "do the best that they can", given their prior statement (typically, the, in writing).

The manager may not insert their personal resource demands for those of the client unless the client is value free, has no objectives, or cannot fathom the meaning of criteria, goals, or desired conditions.

Many modern resource issues are those resulting from managers having attempted to impose their objectives on a system and to have found those were unlike the objectives of the local citizens.

The claim that "animals have rights" needs to be addressed. Perhaps it may be phrased as one objective.

It is likely that almost any faunal resource system objective can be achieved with enough money devoted to it. Most faunal resource system work is constrained by the hidden objective of very limited budgets, use of hand tools, use of hand labor, limited technology, a pioneering attitude, and minimum land disturbance (even though the final land unit that is developed may be better by an entire list of criteria).

Managers may (and should) communicate different objectives and the results of stating and achieving certain objectives, but the client states the objectives. The manager sets up and operates a subsystem for stating objectives but not the content. The manager may try education or "people management." If the manager disagrees with the objectives, states the grounds for disagreement, and will not seek to achieve the objectives, then he or she must leave. There are no other known choices for the ethical manager.

This Web site is maintained by R. H. Giles, Jr.
Last revision January 17, 2000.