PDS APES 5th Period 2009-10

Yes, did you hear? The United Nations has declared this year the International Year of Biodiversity? When I read your Watersheds Case Studies this past week, many of you said the solution was “education.” Is this what you had in mind? UN Secretary General Welcome Message for the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity from CBD [...]

I know you all are discussing land management strategies to maintain biodiversity this week. One of the topics covered in your book is prescribed (controlled) burning of forest or grassland. This may seem counterintuitive, but sometimes conservation biologists want to purposely burn an area to help improve biodiversity or to reduce fuel loads on the [...]