Modern Wild Faunal Resource System Management
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Management is like owning a dairy herd. There is hard work and it may not be interrupted. Continuous is the word for it, not continual. (Few ecosystem scientists know how to factor dis-continuities in ecosystems over time into their analyses. Managers do so intuitively. Perhaps this is a difference that cannot be taught in conventional university procedures.)
There are expected changes in projects and programs, and adjustments, but these are part of the normal flowing series of agency and wildland/rural operations.
It is easy to become pessimistic within the milieu. Knowing this, managers must protect themselves.
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. There the primary task was to prevent the patients from hurting each other. There are no cures.
There is adaptive work to be done, improving feedback.
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