Across the Great Divide

by Brick, Philip D.; Snow, Donald; Van De Wetering, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9781559638111
• ISBN10: 1559638117
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

Amid the policy gridlock that characterizes most environmental debates, a new conservation movement has emerged. Known as "collaborative conservation," it emphasizes local participation, sustainability, and inclusion of the disempowered, and focuses on voluntary compliance and consent rather than legal and regulatory enforcement. Encompassing a wide range of local partnerships and initiatives, it is changing the face of resource management throughout the western United States.Across the Great Dividepresents a thoughtful exploration of this new movement, bringing together writing, reporting, and analysis of collaborative conservation from those directly involved in developing and implementing the approach. Contributors examine: the failure of traditional policy approaches recent economic and demographic changes that serve as a backdrop for the emergence of the movement the merits of, and drawbacks to, collaborative decision-making the challenges involved with integrating diverse voices and bringing all sectors of society into the movement .In addition, the book offers in-depth stories of eight noteworthy collaborative initiatives -- including the Quincy Library Group, Montana's Clark Fork River, the Applegate Partnership, and the Malpai Borderlands -- that explore how different groups have organized and acted to implement their goals.Among the contributors are Ed Marston, George Cameron Coggins, David Getches, Andy Stahl, Maria Varela, Luther Propst, Shirley Solomon, William Riebsame, Cassandra Moseley, Lynn Jungwirth, and others. Across the Great Divideis an important work for anyone involved with collaborative conservation or the larger environmental movement, and for all those who care about the future of resource management in the West.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Daniel Kemmis
Coming Home: An Introduction to Collaborative Conservation	1	(12)
Donald Snow
FROM TROUBLED WATERS: THE EMERGENCE OF COLLABORATIVE CONSERVATION	13	(28)
Will Rain Follow the Plow? Unearthing a New Environmental Movement	15	(10)
Philip Brick
Edward P. Weber
ONRC, Go Home: A Rancher Speaks Out to Environmentalists about Community and the Land	25	(8)
Mike Connelly
What Do We Mean by Consensus? Some Defining Principles	33	(8)
Matthew J. McKinney
DEFINING THE TERRITORY: THE CHANGING FACE OF THE AMERICAN WEST	41	(36)
Geographies of the New West	43	(8)
William E. Riebsame
Your Next Job Will Be in Services. Should You Be Worried?	51	(7)
Ray Rasker
Who Will Be the Gardeners of Eden? Some Questions about the Fabulous New West	58	(6)
Lynn Jungwirth
The Death of John Wayne and the Rebirth of a Code of the West	64	(7)
Peter R. Decker
What Is Community?	71	(6)
Carl M. Moore
ON THE GROUND: COLLABORATIVE CONSERVATION IN PRACTICE	77	(84)
The Quincy Library Group: A Divisive Attempt at Peace	79	(12)
Ed Marston
Montana's Clark Fork: A New Story for a Hardworking River	91	(11)
Donald Snow
The Applegate Partnership: Innovation in Crisis	102	(10)
Cassandra Moseley
Malpai Borderlands: The Searchers for Common Ground	112	(10)
Kelly Cash
Colorado's Yampa Valley: Planning for Open Space	122	(8)
Florence Williams
Wild Olympic Salmon: Art and Activism in the Heart of the Dragon	130	(10)
Fran Stefan
Oregon's Plan for Salmon and Watersheds: The Basics of Building a Recovery Plan	140	(10)
Carlotta Collette
Bitterroot Grizzly Bear Reintroduction: Management by Citizen Committee?	150	(11)
Sarah Van de Wetering
EVALUATING COLLABORATIVE CONSERVATION: A CHAUTAUQUA	161	(50)
Of Californicators, Quislings, and Crazies: Some Perils of Devolved Collaboration	163	(9)
George Cameron Coggins
Of Impostors, Optimists, and Kings: Finding a Political Niche for Collaborative Conservation	172	(8)
Philip Brick
Some Irreverent Questions about Watershed-Based Efforts	180	(8)
David H. Getches
Are Community Watershed Groups Effective? Confronting the Thorny Issue of Measuring Success	188	(6)
Douglas S. Kenney
Ownership, Accountability, and Collaboration	194	(6)
Andy Stahl
Exploring Paradox in Environmental Collaborations	200	(11)
Jonathan I. Lange
BROADENING ENVIRONMENTAL HORIZONS	211	(40)
Imagining the Best Instead of Preventing the Worst: Toward a New Solidarity in Conservation Strategy	213	(7)
Luther Propst
Susan Culp
Crossing the Great Divide: Facing a Shared History in a Multicultural West	220	(8)
Beverly Brown
Collaborative Conservation: Peace or Pacification? The View from Los Ojos	228	(8)
Maria Varela
Finding Science's Voice in the Forest	236	(8)
Jim Burchfield
``Salmon Is Coming for My Heart'': Hearing All the Voices	244	(7)
Shirley Solomon
Appendix: Selected Resources in Collaborative Conservation	251	(14)
Alex Conley
Acknowledgments	265	(2)
About the Contributors	267	(4)
Index	271