Yes, we should be teaching them as different classes, and the typical Miller text EVS class often offered at freshman level is literally nothing more than a watered down environmental class that does little to cover either ecology or evs.
:) On Fri, November 23, 2007 5:50 pm, Andrew Park wrote: > The statement that "most silviculture is little more than tree > farming" is wildly inaccurate in most places except the US southeast, > Chile, New Zealand, some parts of Europe and China, and latterly, pulp > plantations in southern Brazil. > > In most of north America, forests are managed as semi-natural habitats > with minimal intervention after logging, or not managed at all. Even > planted forests fairly rapidly develop species compositions and stand > structures that resemble naturally regenerated forests of similar age. > There is also a very large literature on the subject of using > silviculture to create, maintain, or emulate habitat structures. > > As for "tree farms", I suspect (though I can't prove) that most > intensively managed plantations are way more diverse than an > intensively managed cornfield. > > But back to the central subject. I get the feeling form the way this > thread has gone that people see Ecology as a "pure" science, while > "environmental science" is always applied. If that is true (and I am > a bit skeptical about the rigidity of the division), should we be > teaching them as wholly separate subjects in wholly separate courses? > > Andy > Malcolm L. McCallum Assistant Professor of Biology Editor Herpetological Conservation and Biology http://www.herpconbio.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
