chapter 10 case studies in ecosystem management the mammoth-june ecosystem management project, inyo national forest(427.43kb)精品.pdf

CHAPTER 10 Case Studies in Ecosystem Management sustainability. A primary goal of these analyses is to develop I N T RO D U C T I O N a desired condition, or a “word-picture” of the landscape as it would ideally be in the future. This would serve to guide To assess the various ways organizations and people come the nature and extent of management practices and other land- together to manage Sierran ecosystems, SNEP conducted four use activities that may occur into the future. case studies to examine the efficacy of different institutional SNEP chose this project as a case study to review and ana- arrangements: lyze the potential for this new policy process, as exemplified in the MJEMP, to help achieve health and sustainability of • The Mammoth-June case study examines how a single na- ecosystems on Forest Service lands in the Sierra Nevada. tional forest is attempting to implement the new Forest SNEP’s primary interest was in evaluating the concept of his- Service policy for ecosystem analysis. toric condition and historic variability, specifically, the use- fulness and limitations of historical information in • The Lake Tahoe study investigates a set of institutional ar- determining a desired condition. Further, SNEP critically re- rangements in