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An 11 page overview of the many design considerations which go into the planning of nature reserves. The author emphasizes the importance of insuring desirable biodiversity both by appropriate design and by appropriate management of the reserve once it is created. Mitigation projects are featured as welcome, if not ideal, opportunities for nature reserve design. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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11 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPbiodiv.rtf
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nature reserves encompasses a number of diverse considerations. The first question which must be addressed is whether the reserve will encompass solely natural, already existing systems, encompass only man-made
systems, or be a composite of both. This question is particularly critical given the pressure our environment has born since the beginning of the twentieth century in particular.
Today we have few truly pristine areas to preserve. Consequently, we are faced with the need to rehabilitate areas and to even create new areas in order to set
aside swaths of land and resources to serve as reserves. Development has indeed rendered a great toll on the natural resources of our
country and of the world in general. Throughout the European presence on this continent land and its corresponding natural resources have been viewed as commodities, items to be bought
and sold and modified according to the desires and whims of their "owners". The view of natural resources as commodities made for a disjointed approach towards the harvesting and
maintenance of these commodities and in the development of the land which housed them. Rather than viewing the lands as habitats and valuable ecosystems, as a whole entity
with each plant, animal, and geographic feature interdependent with each other; they were viewed as individual commodities which could be torn from their surroundings (without regard to sustaining the ecosystem)
and sold for a profit. Land was plowed under and forever altered in agricultural and industrial pursuits or in other ways destroyed. Such is the state of much
of the land which is currently being considered for the creation of reserves. The unfortunate facts of environmental conservation is that we are often faced with having to accept
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