ES293 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nature Reserve
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*to design the best park, you want to design one for species to last in it forever- give them a 99% chance of survival in the park. Species at risk= mississauga rattlesnake, trying to reintroduce the species in parks. Double crested-cormorants not exactly most beautiful bird so public does not tend to care. Threatened by pesticides in 1960"s- severely reduced numbers- birth defects. Recovered substantially now considered a nuisance". Impacts: destroy vegetation, eat sport fish, pollute water. Limited scientific documentation hard to do a full enivromental assessment. Program was working- but was not properly managed. Catering to one group of stakeholder- primarily fishermen, the bird was taking away their source of income. Other management practices at the same time also under criticism (deer, hunting, etc. ) Physical or design: archictural or engineering adaptation, hard surface. In understanding how to manage understand the term ecosystem-based management and applying it to complex systems. In park management it must be incorporated more.
