Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values toward Natural Resources and Public Land Management

A Framework for Ecosystem Management in the Interior Columbia Basin and Portions of the Klamath and Great Basins (Haynes and others 1996) states that a main feature of an ecosystem approach to managing natural resources is to include people, their values, and activities. The Framework acknowledges that people may make demands on ecosystems that exceed physical and biological capabilities in the long term. Developing and implementing an ecosystem management plan requires knowledge of the type and quantity of human demands for ecosystem products and the human values associated with these expectations.