The three kingdoms – human, animal, and plant – share the same biosphere. Because humans possess the highest form of intelligence, they bear the greatest responsibility in caring for their environment. During the development of this stewardship, certain choices were made in order to ‘manage’ the environment. Through trial and error, the best choices became the norms of society and in order to protect those norms, laws were enacted. Localized cultures formed around these regional environmental practices and today, we have all grown up within certain cultural constraints that taught us how to live and ‘manage’ our personal universe for the good of all according to our entrenched world-view.
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Is Game Management Anti-Environmentalism?
April 3rd, 2008The Sierra Club
February 18th, 2008The trading post had been raided and several people killed; in the name of conservation. Chief Tenaya and his tribe, renegades among their own people, were feeling the encroachment of the miners and settlers closing in. Through retaliation, they sought to conserve the land they called Ahwanee. The year was 1851.
The miners and early American settlers had their own definition of conservation. So they captured and drove the Chief and his Paiute renegades from the land and, as was customary among 18th century Europeans, renamed the land. The name chosen was » More: The Sierra Club