A Primer of Ecological Principles Book One by Richard J. Vogl
For all grades.
WT
At 08:52 AM 9/23/2007, Beth Callaghan wrote:
Anyone have any recommendations on an ecology text suitable for
grades 9-12? thanks.
Beth Callaghan
Easthampton High School
Easthampton, MA
There's something troublesome to me about the terms, even though I
recognize their utility and inevitability. There's just something
disturbing about thinking about Mother Nature (aka the earth
ecosystem and all its little ecosystems, as it were) servicing humans.
As a practical matter,
Evidence, evidence, evidence!
However, cannot one set aside the distracting tedium and get down to
the question of whether or not academic institutions (not to mention
individual researchers) are so grant-driven that education and
research has suffered to some extent thereby? If so, to what
An excellent point that bears repeating and repeating and repeating .
. . ad infinitum.
The most important thing is to know what you don't know. --Margaret Mead
The suspension of judgment is the highest exercise in intellectual
discipline. --Raymond Gilmore
WT
At 03:50 PM 10/12/2007, David
One of my useful mottos is The roughest guess THAT GETS THE JOB
DONE. That's a heavy condition, but sometime rough guesses can be
helpful. They can do until the data savior or perfection comes along.
I don't do original research on the anthropogenic influences on
climate either, but I remain
While I also tend to agree with Warren too, I must admit I cringe a
bit every time I hear the old Forest Service multiple-use mission
saw. When I was in the Forest Service almost fifty years ago, the
reality did not fit the spin. I continue to find no good reason to
think that that giant
Me too, and I have to be brief. I second Malcolm's points, but
despite all the stuff out there, I seriously question whether or
not indicators are really up to the task. I yearn for definitions
of forest health, not because I can't think of any, but because I
can think of too many.
I also
From:Wayne Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ecology Indicators Forest Health Re: Question: Ecological
indicators for National Forest Health
Me too, and I have to be brief. I second Malcolm's points, but=20
despite all the stuff out there, I seriously question whether or=20
not indicators
Joseph and all other Honorable askers of simultaneously and
ironically leading and essential questions:
Among the many consequences of Peak Oil and the petering out of the
cheap stuff, only oil barons and sheiks and The Authorities will be
able to afford to poke holes in the ozone layer (has
Make issues simple, not tedious. For example, we can all agree that
the planet can change its climate without humans. We should be able
to agree that, whether or not it is too late to have any effect at
all, most of the changes that we could make would be for the better
no matter how you
Make issues simple, not tedious. For example, we can all agree that
the planet can change its climate without humans. We should be able
to agree that, whether or not it is too late to have any effect at
all, most of the changes that we could make would be for the better
no matter how you
Now it appears that bioengineering is getting involved in switchgrass
production; the gushy, gee-whiz item made no mention of the net
energy figures for the improved version.
Anyone got any particulars?
Does ESA have a position? Other science organizations?
WT
Uh, oh--Nielsen has no idea what a Pandora's box he's opened; he will
need a year's lead time just to read the rants. So how does he punt
against his deadline (the only silly part) without desolving into a
bunch of frantic sound bytes?
My too sense on the matter is this--what never gets
to evolve.
Sometimes man has tried to counter one alien invasion by introducing another
alien species to control it -- which brings into action the Law of
Unintended Consequences. It's a tricky game to play.
Bill Silvert
- Original Message -
From: Wayne Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ECOLOG-L
tried to counter one alien invasion by introducing
another alien species to control it -- which brings into action the
Law of Unintended Consequences. It's a tricky game to play.
Bill Silvert
- Original Message - From: Wayne Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ECOLOG-L
Great! Now all is needed is for professors to use them (preferably
as the author intends), publish them, publish only in free on-line
journals, and for the institutions to stop insisting that such
journals, ipso facto don't count as publications (e.g., toward
tenure), and the whole business
I share the contempt for soft in the sense of sham (for which all
too many courses, degrees, and institutions qualify), but ecology (we
should not be forced to qualify the term, for example, as not
referring to the ecology, whatever that is, or saving beer cans and
mulching xmas trees) should
Honorable Forum:
Your assistance with editing the following draft will be appreciated.
Ecology, Citizenship, Human Destiny, and the Cycle of Being
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