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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910838367803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-226-16585-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Collana: Summits: Environmental Science, Law, and Policy
• Classificazione: AR 13200
• Disciplina: 577.0978
• Soggetti: Landscape ecology - West (U.S.)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.