Stitching the West Back Together : Conservation of Working Landscapes / Susan Charnley, Thomas E. Sheridan, Gary P. Nabhan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charnley, Susan, Editor.

Nabhan, Gary P., Editor.

Sheridan, Thomas E., Editor.

Series:

Summits: environmental science, law, and policy.

Summits: Environmental Science, Law, and Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape ecology--West (U.S.).

Landscape ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranchers, and forest workers are bucking preconceptions to establish common ground. As they join together to protect the wide open spaces, diverse habitats, and working landscapes upon which people, plants, and animals depend, a new vision of management is emerging in which the conservation of biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, and sustainable resource use are seen not as antithetical, but as compatible, even symbiotic goals. Featuring contributions from an impressive array of scientists, conservationists, scholars, ranchers, and foresters, Stitching the West Back Together explores that expanded, inclusive vision of environmentalism as it delves into the history and evolution of Western land use policy and of the working landscapes themselves. Chapters include detailed case studies of efforts to promote both environmental and economic sustainability, with lessons learned; descriptions of emerging institutional frameworks for conserving Western working landscapes; and implications for best practices and policies crucial to the future of the West's working forests and rangelands. As economic and demographic forces threaten these lands with fragmentation and destruction, this book encourages a hopeful balance between production and conservation on the large, interconnected landscapes required for maintaining cultural and biological diversity over the longterm.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Brief History of People and Policy in the West

Chapter 2. Status and Trends of Western Working Landscapes

Chapter 3. The Biodiversity That Protected Areas Can't Capture: How Private Ranch, Forest, and Tribal Lands Sustain Biodiversity

Chapter 4. Beyond "Stakeholders" and the Zero- Sum Game: Toward Community- Based Collaborative Conservation in the American West

Spotlight 4.1. Historic Precedents to Collaborative Conservation in Working Landscapes: The Coon Valley "Cooperative Conservation" Initiative, 1934

Chapter 5. The Quivira Experience: Reflections from a "Do" Tank

Spotlight 5.1. Grass- Fed and Grass- Finished Livestock Production: Helping to Keep Working Landscapes Intact

Chapter 6. Place- Based Conservation Finds Its Voice: A Case Study of the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition

Chapter 7. Swan Story

Spotlight 7.1. Arcata Community Forest

Chapter 8. Taking a Different Approach: Forestland Management in the Redwood Region

Spotlight 8.1. The Conservation Fund's Garcia River Forest, California

Chapter 9. Stewardship Contracting in the Siuslaw National Forest

Spotlight 9.1. Stewardship Agreements: The Weaverville Community Forest, California

Chapter 10. Lava Lake Land & Livestock: The Role of Private Landowners in Landscape- Scale Conservation

Spotlight 10.1. Country Natural Beef

Chapter 11. Conservation and Development at Sun Ranch: The Search for Balance in the U.S. West

Spotlight 11.1 The Madison Valley Ranchlands Group

Chapter 12. Integrating Diversified Strategies on a Single Ranch: From Renewable Energy and Multiple Breeds to Conservation Easements

Spotlight 12.1. Private Land Conservation Trends in the Western United States

Chapter 13. The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan and Ranch Conservation in Pima County, Arizona

Spotlight 13.1. Ranching and the "Death Tax": A Matter of Conservation as Well as Equity

Chapter 14. Payments for Ecosystem Services: Keeping Working Landscapes Productive and Functioning

Spotlight 14.1. The Conservation Reserve Program

Conclusions and Policy Implications

Acknowledgments

Contributor Biographies

Summits Board of Advisers

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226165851

022616585X

OCLC:

886111658