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Summary
Summary
Every piece of land, no matter how remote or untrammeled, has a boundary. While sometimes boundary lines follow topographic or biological features, more often they follow the straight lines of political dictate and compromise. Administrative boundaries nearly always fragment a landscape, resulting in loss of species that must disperse or migrate across borders, increased likelihood of threats such as alien species or pollutants, and disruption of natural processes such as fire. Despite the importance and ubiquity of boundary issues, remarkably little has been written on the subject.Stewardship Across Boundariesfills that gap in the literature, addressing the complex biological and socioeconomic impacts of both public and private land boundaries in the United States. With contributions from natural resource managers, historians, environmentalists, political scientists, and legal scholars, the book:develops a framework for understanding administrative boundaries and their effects on the land and on human behavior examines issues related to different types of boundaries -- wilderness, commodity, recreation, private-public presents a series of case studies illustrating the efforts of those who have cooperated to promote stewardship across boundaries synthesizes the broad complexity of boundary-related issues and offers an integrated strategy for achieving regional stewardshi.Stewardship Across Boundariesshould spur open discussion among students, scientists, managers, and activists on this important topic. It demonstrates how legal, social, and ecological conditions interact in causing boundary impacts and why those factors must be integrated to improve land management. It also discusses research needs and will help facilitate critical thinking within the scientific community that could result in new strategies for managing boundaries and their impacts.
Author Notes
Richard L. Knight is professor of wildlife conservation at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is co-editor of Wildlife and Recreationists (Island Press, 1995) and A New Century for Natural Resource Management (Island Press, 1995).
Peter B. Landres is research ecologist at the USDA Forest Service Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute in Missoula, Montana.
Reviews 1
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Boundaries and cross-boundary effects pose significant challenges for environmental managers. This edited collection makes a valuable contribution to both the theoretical and implementation aspects of stewardship across boundaries. As Eric Freyfogel points out in the introductory essay, people are bounded but land is not. Resources cross boundaries, but legal, economic, and institutional divisions often force policy makers to stop managing at whatever point resources cross property lines, zoning districts, or state lines. Many boundaries become artificial barriers that restrict managers' ability to deal holistically with water, air, or biotic elements. One strength of this volume is that it brings together insights of academics who explore key theoretical issues as well as essays written by governmental research scientists and area resource managers that address policy dimensions. Six case studies--ranging from the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem to New York State's Adirondack Park--illustrate a variety of practical considerations that policy makers and resource managers face in dealing with boundary issues. Although this is an edited volume, it exhibits unity of theme and coherence in design, and brings its subject to a useful conclusion. This valuable and practical introduction to cross-boundary issues is recommended for general readers as well as upper-division undergraduate through professional audiences. P. J. Pizor; Northwest College
