Integrated scientific assessment for ecosystem management in the interior Columbia Basin, and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins / Thomas M. Quigley, Richard W. Haynes, and Russell T. Graham, technical editors.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Quigley, Thomas M. (Thomas Milton), editor.

Haynes, Richard W., editor.

Graham, Russell T., editor.

Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.), issuing body.

Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (U.S.). Science Integration Team

Series:

General technical report PNW ; 382.

General technical report PNW ; 382

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecosystem management--Columbia River Watershed.

Ecosystem management.

Biodiversity conservation--Columbia River Watershed.

Biodiversity conservation.

Conservation of natural resources--Columbia River Watershed.

Conservation of natural resources.

Pacific salmon.

Salmon.

Columbia River Watershed.

United States--Columbia River Watershed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color)

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1996.

Summary:

"The Integrated Scientific Assessment for Ecosystem Management for the Interior Columbia Basin links landscape, aquatic, terrestrial, social, and economic characterizations to describe biophysical and social systems. Integration was achieved through a framework built around six goals for ecosystem management and three different views of the future. These goals are: maintain evolutionary and ecological processes; manage for multiple ecological domains and evolutionary timeframes; maintain viable populations of native and desired non-native species; encourage social and economic resiliency; manage for places with definable values; and, manage to maintain a variety of ecosystem goods, services, and conditions that society wants. Ratings of relative ecological integrity and socioeconomic resiliency were used to make broad statements about ecosystem conditions in the Basin. Currently in the Basin high integrity and resiliency are found on 16 and 20 percent of the area, respectively. Low integrity and resiliency are found on 60 and 68 percent of the area. Different approaches to management can alter the risks to the assets of people living in the Basin and to the ecosystem itself. Continuation of current management leads to increasing risks while management approaches focusing on reserves or restoration result in trends that mostly stabilize or reduce risks. Even where ecological integrity is projected to improve with the application of active management, population increases and the pressures of expanding demands on resources may cause increasing trends in risk"--Page ii

Notes:

" ... summarizes much of the work of the Science Integration Team (SIT) of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP)"--Page iii

"September 1996."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Print version record.

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Print version: Integrated scientific assessment for ecosystem management in the interior Columbia Basin, and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins

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OCLC:

681213309

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