{"id":5031,"date":"2011-03-01T07:35:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T12:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2011-03-01T07:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T12:35:33","slug":"ecological-tradeoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=5031","title":{"rendered":"Ecological Tradeoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://worklivelaos.com/img_8751/ Via Andy Revkin<\/a> at Dot Earth, I see that Peter Gleick<\/a>, living in\u00a0an imaginary world where tradeoffs never occur,\u00a0is outraged<\/a> that some people in California are daring to\u00a0consider that not all endangered species, because of their dire status,\u00a0can be saved:\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a desperate attempt to make it easier to solve California’s complex and contentious water problems, a dangerous new idea has recently been floated — intentionally letting some species go extinct rather than take the difficult steps needed to save them and their ecosystems. This idea should be quashed, smothered, strangled, and quickly tossed in the dumpster of failed ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first hint of this appeared earlier in February in the 52-page study<\/a> released by the Delta Stewardship Council. That report argued that it was possible that some species of fish might be so devastated already and their ecosystems so ruined that they were unlikely to survive even with significant efforts to save them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, in the real world,\u00a0government\u00a0biologists and land and water managers have to grapple with the\u00a0competing needs of society and species.\u00a0It’s a complex jigsaw that isn’t pretty or fair, as anyone familiar with the ongoing (and flawed<\/a>) efforts to restore<\/a> the Florida Everglades is aware.<\/p>\n

Order Zopiclone Online This doesn’t mean I’m against\u00a0herculean, against-all-odds initiatives to save individual species. Out West, one such\u00a0noble effort has been underway for decades, terrifically chronicled<\/a> by Hillary Rosner<\/a> in her recent award-winning<\/a> story.<\/p>\n

Still, let’s not kid ourselves. There are winnners and losers in our constructed landscapes.\u00a0 As I discussed here<\/a> in 2009,\u00a0\u00a0the U.S. Fish & Wildlife\u00a0Service<\/a> (FWS) has (unofficially) acknowledged, in an internal, draft-stage\u00a0planning document<\/a>\u00a0(my emphasis):<\/p>\n

that some populations and species will be lost, and some will only survive in the wild through our direct and continuous intervention.\u00a0 We will be especially challenged to conserve species and habitats that are particularly vulnerable to climate-driven changes, but we will dedicate our best efforts and expertise to the task, Zolpidem Buy Online recognizing that we cannot save everything. We will need to make choices<\/strong>, Purchase Xanax Online and we will need to apply ourselves where we can make the greatest difference.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get Tramadol Online Is there a better way forward than than this\u00a0cold-eyed,\u00a0calculating\u00a0approach? Probably not,\u00a0at least\u00a0with respect to\u00a0determinations of\u00a0single\u00a0species\u00a0made in a real-world framework\u00a0of limited resources. But as Revkin notes in another post<\/a>, we’re increasingly faced with\u00a0individual extinctions because<\/p>\n

Ambien 10 Mg Price we have an Endangered Species Act intended to save species on the brink, but not a Thriving Ecosystems Act that tries to monitor and sustain diverse communities of species before bad things happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https://growthjourneytherapy.com/mission/ Via Andy Revkin at Dot Earth, I see that Peter Gleick, living in\u00a0an imaginary world where tradeoffs never occur,\u00a0is outraged that some people in California are daring to\u00a0consider that not all endangered species, because of their dire status,\u00a0can be saved:\u00a0 In a desperate attempt to make it easier to solve California’s complex and contentious water… https://theroyalstagproperties.com/home-video/ Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2627,2639],"tags":[969,987],"class_list":["post-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology","category-endangered-species","tag-ecology","tag-endangered-species"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}