The Lesser Prairie Chicken says rangelands aren’t as healthy as we thought
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just proposed to list as ‘threatened’ the Lesser Prairie Chicken throughout much of the high plains region based on a precipitous decline over the past 10-15 years....
View ArticleA Sense of Place
I recently visited Santa Fe with some friends. When we go there, we always seem to wind up at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Although most widely known as a pioneer of American Modernism and for her...
View ArticleWhy am I always the last to know?
'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that' -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields. Frederic Nietzsche It’s unlikely that Nietzsche could ever be thought of...
View ArticleScale, management, and ecosystem services
The idea of ecosystem services is appealing to land ecologists. It promises a new way to convey the value of ecosystems and ecological processes to a broad audience and focus attention on sustainable...
View ArticleCan Soil Survey become the basis for land management?
One of the most challenging aspects of land management and restoration is to balance the generation of new information and the application of existing accepted knowledge. At one end of the spectrum is...
View ArticleIt’s the management, stupid
In the 1992 U.S. Presidential campaign, Bill Clinton’s staff (specifically James Carville) kept the candidate and the campaign organization focused with “it’s the economy, stupid” printed on Post-it...
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