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Index
About Island Press
About the Northern Lights Research and Education Institute
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Coming Home: An Introduction to Collaborative Conservation
FROM TROUBLED WATERS: THE EMERGENCE OF COLLABORATIVE CONSERVATION
Will Rain Follow the Plow? Unearthing a New Environmental Movement
A Furrow Deep and Wide: Contours of a New Environmental Movement
A Wheel in the Ditch, and a Wheel on the Track
REFERENCES
ONRC, Go Home: A Rancher Speaks Out to Environmentalists about Community and the Land
REFERENCES
What Do We Mean by Consensus? Some Defining Principles
Key Ingredients for Consensus
Why Use Consensus?
DEFINING THE TERRITORY: THE CHANGING FACE OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Geographies of the New West
The New Gold Rush
New Geographies
Driving and Enabling the New Geographies
Limits on Development?
Conservation in the New West Landscapes
Your Next Job Will Be in Services Should You Be Worried?
Check Your Myths against These Realities
Looking Ahead and Adding Value
In the Meantime, Growth Happens
The Upshot
REFERENCES
Who Will Be the Gardeners of Eden? Some Questions about the Fabulous New West
Protection . . . a Close-Up View
Wake Up and Smell the Fire
Tending the Garden
Community Regeneration
The Death of John Wayne and the Rebirth of a Code of the West
Some Myths Die with Their Boots On
Defining a Code of the West
What Is Community?
ON THE GROUND: COLLABORATIVE CONSERVATION IN PRACTICE
The Quincy Library Group: A Divisive Attempt at Peace
“Working-Class Gorgeous”
Not Conventional Consensus
Creative Environmentalists . . .
SNEP, CASPO, and All That
The Plan
Back to the Past
The Challenge to the Greens
Montana’s Clark Fork: A New Story for a Hardworking River
Getting Ready
The Water Reservation Brouhaha
Setting the Table for Consensus
A New Plan Takes Shape
The Plot Thickens
Getting the Work Done
The Results
And Beyond
The Applegate Partnership Innovation in Crisis
Building the Partnership
Facing Adversaries
Changing Federal Agencies
Growing Pains, Looking Ahead
Malpai Borderlands: The Searchers for Common Ground
After the Martians Landed
Kitchens That Changed My Life
Saving All the Parts
Out of the Kitchen, but into the Frying Pan?
Colorado’s Yampa Valley: Planning for Open Space
Wild Olympic Salmon: Art and Activism in the Heart of the Dragon
Journey
Friendship
Adventures
Passages
Oregon’s Plan for Salmon and Watersheds: The Basics of Building a Recovery Plan
Working the Watershed
“People Relate to Their Watersheds”
Making a Puzzle into a Plan
Winning and Losing and Winning Again
Epilogue
Bitterroot Grizzly Bear Reintroduction Management by Citizen Committee?
Protection . . . Required by Law
Getting Beyond “No, Hell No”
Alternative One
The Radical Center Draws Fire
EVALUATING COLLABORATIVE CONSERVATION: A CHAUTAUQUA
Of Californicators, Quislings, and Crazies: Some Perils of Devolved Collaboration
Toto, I Don’t Think We’re in the Nineteenth Century Anymore
Cowboys: Check Your Assumptions at the Door
Warning: Collaborative Community Dialogue Can Be Hazardous to Your Principles
What House of Cards?
These Lands are Your Lands . . . Not
Let’s Not Kill All the Lawyers
Of Impostors, Optimists, and Kings: Finding a Political Niche for Collaborative Conservation
A Political Niche for Collaborative Conservation
The Power of the Powerless
Some Irreverent Questions about Watershed-Based Efforts
Can Watershed Efforts Be Sustained without a “Cause”?
Can Watershed Groups Be Effective without Significant Government Involvement?
The Upshot
RESOURCES
Are Community-Based Watershed Groups Really Effective? Confronting the Thorny Issue of Measuring Success
The Issue of Success: What We Don’t Know
Why Should You Care?
Conclusions
REFERENCES
Ownership, Accountability, and Collaboration
REFERENCE
Exploring Paradox in Environmental Collaborations
The Entry Paradox
The Authority Expropriation Paradox
The Stakeholder Paradox
The Constituency Paradox
The Mainstreamer Paradox
REFERENCES
BROADENING ENVIRONMENTAL HORIZONS
Imagining the Best Instead of Preventing the Worst: Toward a New Solidarity in Conservation Strategy
A New Vision for Conservation in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion
REFERENCES
Crossing the Great Divide: Facing a Shared History in a Multicultural West
Making Change Happen
Collaborative Conservation: Peace or Pacification? The View from Los Ojos
Conquest Reconstructed
Reconnecting Culture, Economics, and the Environment
From Conflict to Collaboration, and Back Again
Finding Science’s Voice in the Forest
The Guiding Light
In Process We Trust
Conclusion
REFERENCES
“Salmon Is Coming for My Heart”: Hearing All the Voices
REFERENCES
Appendix: Selected Resources in Collaborative Conservation
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
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