This course
is taught by Chris Harris, Professor Dept. of Conservation Social Sciences
The goal of watershed management is to make decisions and
take actions that maintain, restore or enhance a particular landscape – a
landscape that includes aquatic ecosystems -- so that a preferred or desired
condition is achieved. From an ecological viewpoint, the desired condition
is one that represents a particular set of ecological functions and
structures. From a societal stand-point, it is one whereby management is
conducted as effectively and efficiently as possible. Attaining these
conditions likely requires some modification of current or planned land-use
activities, and choices must be made that are directly related to the values
humans have placed on that ecosystem and the organizations managing them.
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