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Policy Oriented Conservation Design, Y2Y and Grizzly Bears
Troy Merrill, LTB Institute of Landscape Ecology |
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Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative promotes a
bold vision for the Northern Rocky Mountains of North
America. “Combining science and stewardship, we seek to
ensure that the world- renowned wilderness, wildlife,
native plants, and natural processes of the Yellowstone
to Yukon region continue to function as an
interconnected web of life, capable of supporting all of
the natural and human communities that reside within it,
for now and for future generations.” This vision can be
realized only if Y2Y avoids the ‘fallacy of insight’ –
the belief that understanding a problem is equivalent to
solving a problem. To date Y2Y has taken an
interdisciplinary approach to develop understanding of
what needs to be done in order to achieve their goals.
An expanded interdisciplinary approach is now being
employed to define how to do it. This interdisciplinary
approach is illustrated a case study describing the
development of Y2Y’s grizzly bear conservation strategy. |
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