Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America
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Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America offers a road map for securing our energy future while safeguarding our heritage. Contributors show how science can help craft solutions to conflicts between wildlife and energy development by delineating core areas, identifying landscapes that support viable populations, and forecasting future development scenarios to aid in conservation design. The final section calls for a shift away from site-level management that has failed to mitigate cumulative impacts on wildlife populations toward broad-scale planning and implementation of conservation in priority landscapes.
The book concludes by identifying ways that decision makers can remove roadblocks to conservation, and provides a blueprint for implementing conservation plans. Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America is a must-have volume for elected officials, industry representatives, natural resource managers, conservation groups, and the public seeking to promote energy independence while at the same time protecting wildlife.
The final section calls for a shift away from site-level management that has failed to mitigate cumulative impacts on wildlife populations toward broad-scale planning and implementation of conservation in priority landscapes. The book frames the issue and introduces readers to major types of extractionquantifies the pace and extent of current and future energy developmentprovides an ecological foundation for understanding cumulative impacts on wildlife speciessynthesizes information on the biological response of wildlife to developmentdiscusses energy infrastructure as a conduit for the spread of invasive speciescompares impacts of alternative energy to those of conventional development The final section calls for a shift away from site-level management that has failed to mitigate cumulative impacts on wildlife populations toward broad-scale planning and implementation of conservation in priority landscapes. Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America is a must-have volume for elected officials, industry representatives, natural resource managers, conservation groups, and the public seeking to promote energy independence while at the same time protecting wildlife. Copeland, Amy Pocewicz, and Joseph M. Solar power is now being gained from bulk solar panels being floated on reservoirs meaning that it occupies no extra space and the power is generated very close to the area that needs it, so there is no loss. Solar power is doubling every few years although at the time of writing over eighty percent of it was in California. You may be surprised to read some of the facts presented, such as Canada being the world's largest extractor and exporter of uranium.
Trade-offs between energy development and conservation are unfolding before our eyes—and the intention of this book is to help policy makers turn science into solutions to this most pressing issue. This book speaks to a philosophy of science-based conservation that first seeks to understand how a system works and then to use that knowledge to help provide solutions.
The arena they describe is growin rapidly in significance. This important book provides the sorely needed platform upon which to construct research and management programs and guide inevitable debates. Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America is a timely and welcome addition to the scientific literature. Many relevant issues are covered by expert contributors, including the potential negative impacts of so-called green energy—wind, biofuels, and solar power—on wildlife.
A must-read for all those concerned with wildlife conservation.
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An interesting book, offering dependable information on one of the West's most intransigent controversies. And that is why this latest amalgamation of population and conservation studies, while academic and dense, bodes well for the overdue convergence of science and society in conserving our remaining open spaces and wildlife communities in the west. The authors herald, 'With one resounding voice, the conservation community needs to indicate which landscapes are most valuable to wildlife if they expect their interests to be heard.
To date, we have no such game plan' p. This book presents the outlines of such a plan. The book concludes by identifying ways that decision makers can remove roadblocks to conservation, and provides a blueprint for implementing conservation plans. Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America is a must-have volume for elected officials, industry representatives, natural resource managers, conservation groups, and the public seeking to promote energy independence while at the same time protecting wildlife. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
Lists with This Book. Mar 08, Clare O'Beara rated it it was amazing Shelves: This look by several authors at aspects of energy and land use in the western North American continent, combines many scientific studies and findings up to The language and presentation mean that an average reader will have to be prepared to put time into understanding the work.
However, this is not an engineering text, and we can Google new words. With a basic knowledge of the terms and a wish to understand the situation, the student of energy generation, or nature, or the locality, will This look by several authors at aspects of energy and land use in the western North American continent, combines many scientific studies and findings up to With a basic knowledge of the terms and a wish to understand the situation, the student of energy generation, or nature, or the locality, will get a lot out of this work.
We are early told that cattle ranching now accounts for only one percent of this area's GDP. Energy - mainly meaning oil and gas extraction - accounts for a huge amount of the wealth of this area. Oil sands, oil shale, coal and uranium are all featured. While housing is subdividing former ranches near every town.
As energy use and population pressure contribute to global climate change, the natural ecosystems come under still more pressure.
Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America. pages 6 x 9 23 illustrations. Edited by David E. Naugle; Foreword by Mark S. Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America offers a road map for securing our energy future while safeguarding our wildlife.
In we have already seen that the Canadian wildfire season has extended; it used to open on 1st May and now it opens on 1st March. A blaze has raged through a town near oil sands extraction in Alberta. The editor largely disregards hydro power - I thought there was surely room to have more of this with small dams on rivers running off the Rockies. He also tells us that alternative energy, except nuclear, has a large carbon and spatial footprint. Now, the carbon footprint involved in building a nuclear power plant, staffing it, mining uranium and disposing of the wastes must be immense.
Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America
Solar power is now being gained from bulk solar panels being floated on reservoirs meaning that it occupies no extra space and the power is generated very close to the area that needs it, so there is no loss. This is happening in the UK including London.
But the book was written in - still, a reservoir top is not hard to figure. Conservation of indigenous species and of landscapes is a priority for the authors, as roads, heavy traffic, pylons, tree felling, water and ground disturbance all put pressure on species and change the face of the land. Boreal northern forest, shrubland and grassland are the main biomes natural areas studied. To see what is likely to happen as development proceeds, comparisons are drawn with development in Norway - caribou stopped using an area - or Alaska.
You may be surprised to read some of the facts presented, such as Canada being the world's largest extractor and exporter of uranium. Montana and Wyoming have the highest potential for wind power generation - well, the wind off the Rockies never stops, they say. This would occupy a lot of space, but cattle or deer could readily graze among wind turbines. However, birds and bats have collided with turbines.
Solar power is doubling every few years although at the time of writing over eighty percent of it was in California. By now solar has got a lot cheaper and lighter and I hope to see a solar panel on every roof