A Comprehensive Approach
By Lee
Tags: Conservation, Food Chain, Missouri, Species, Web of Life, Wildlife Management
Category: Outdoors
Boy, the eco-alarmists make me crazy. It seems like everywhere you turn these days, one group or another wants to protect or wipe out a particular species without consideration of the impact on others.
Last February at the Conservation Federation of Missouri Conference (CFM) Dennis Figg from the Missouri Dept of Conservation (as seen on the Missouri Outdoors TV show) presented several recent success stories using the Comprehensive system approach. Basically the concept acknowledges that when you take action for the sake of one species you affect a variety of others simply through the interconnectedness of our existence, the “web of life” as they say. Sometimes the impact on other species isn’t intended or a good thing.
The comprehensive system approach acknowledges that you can’t treat one without affecting others and suggests focus on the entire system involved. In this way when something is introduced or removed – the entire system is considered. Nature is left to take its course regarding the growth or limit of a particular species and we are less likely to screw something up.
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