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An 8 page discussion of the issues surrounding environmental restoration and mitigation. The author provides a critical analysis of the contention that a restored or created habitat, in addition to almost always being inferior in terms of diversity and ecological value to the original, is inferior aesthetically as well, that the very knowledge that an area is not original detracts from its value just as such knowledge would for a work of art. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPenvRst.rtf
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Development has rendered a great toll on the natural resources of our country and indeed 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. In the cut down and pave over mentality which has existed for the past century in particular a number of land
management tactics have been employed to both preserve ecological areas and to make up for those areas that are destroyed. Often a land owner is allowed to develop ecologically
sensitive land if there is an agreement to mitigate this development elsewhere. Mitigation could include a variety of activities such as pollution cleanup or even ecosystem creation.
In the case of wetlands, for example, mitigation often involves the creation of man made wetlands in greater expanse that was originally developed. The problem with this type of
approach is that ecosystem development is a new field which isnt one hundred percent predictable in terms of its final outcome. While the new area may provide the equivalent
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