The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl: Policy Lessons for a New Century

by Steven Lewis Yaffee

Book Overview

The controversy over the management of national forests in the Pacific Northwest vividly demonstrates the shortcomings of existing management institutions and natural resource policies. The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl explores the American policymaking process through the case of the spotted owl -- a case that offers a striking illustration of the failure of our society to cope with long-term, science-intensive issues requiring collective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559632046
• ISBN13: 9781559632041
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, hardly a week goes by when I don't recommend it

Endangered species-- spotted owls and salmon are my backyard issues- I've also worked with community based resource management and environmental conflicts for the past 15 years . .Yaffe presents powerful arguments that we are facing not solely a biological crisis but also a crisis in how we as a society make public policy decisions and manage resources.He documents 25 years of failure in forest management, inability or unwillingness to overcome barriers of integrating natural systems management into agency bureaucracies. It's solid, good reading. I underlined sentences on every page. Recommend it strongly as a guide to the lessons we need to learn if we are to "reinvent" resource management. excellent!