Integrating professional skills in wildlife student

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 226-230

  Kroll, A J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graduate student training; Natural resource policy; Quantitative training; Wildlife education; Wildlife management; Wildlife science

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; STUDENT; TRAINING; UNIVERSITY SECTOR; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34248196616     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-714     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Anderson, D. R. 2001. The need to get the basics right in wildlife field studies. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:1294-1297.
2. Anderson, D. R., K. P. Burnham, A. B. Franklin, R. J. Gutiérrez, E. D. Forsman, R. G. Anthony, G. C. White, and T. M. Shenk. 1999. A protocol for conflict resolution in analyzing empirical data related to natural resource controversies. Wildlife Society Bulletin 27:1050-1058.
3. Anderson, D. R., K. P. Burnham, W. R. Gould, and S. Cherry. 2001a. Concerns about finding effects that are actually spurious. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:311-316.
4. Anderson, D. R., K. P. Burnham, and G. C. White. 2001b. Kullback-Leibler information in resolving natural resource conflicts when definitive data exist. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:1260-1270.
5. Anderson, D. R., E. G. Cooch, R. J. Gutiérrez, C. J. Krebs, M. S. Lindberg, K. H. Pollock, C. A. Ribic, and T. M. Shenk. 2003. Rigorous science: suggestions on how to raise the bar. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31:296-305.
6. Barry, D., and M. Oelschlaeger. 1996. A science for survival: values and conservation biology. Conservation Biology 10:905-911.
7. Benson, W. H. 1995. Better science makes for better decisions. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 14:1811-1812.
8. Berkson, J., and A.-L. Harrison. 2001. An integrative capstone course for the conservation biology curriculum. Conservation Biology 15:1461-1463.
9. Bleich, V. C., and M. W. Oehler. 2000. Wildlife education in the United States: thoughts from agency biologists. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:542-545.
10. Bradshaw, G. A., and J. G. Borchers. 2000. Uncertainty as information: narrowing the science-policy gap. Conservation Ecology 4(1). 〈http://www.consecol.org/vol4/iss1/art7〉. Accessed 15 Jan 2000.
11. Brewer, C., and L. J. Gross. 2003. Training ecologists to think with uncertainty in mind. Ecology 84:1412-1414.
12. Brown, R. D., and L. A. Nielsen. 2000. Leading wildlife academic programs into the new millenium. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:495-502.
13. Campbell, S. P., A. K. Fuller, and D. A. G. Patrick. 2005. Looking beyond research in doctoral education. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3:153-160.
14. Connelly, J., and G. Smith, editors. 1999. Politics and the environment: from theory to practice. Routledge, London, United Kingdom.
15. Dovers, S. R., T. W. Norton, and J. W. Handmer. 1996. Uncertainty, ecology, sustainability, and policy. Biodiversity and Conservation 5:1143-1167.
16. Freddy, D. J., G. C. White, M. C. Kneeland, R. H. Kahn, J. W. Unsworth, W. J. deVergie, V. K. Graham, J. H. Ellenberger, and C. H. Wagner. 2004. How many mule deer are there? Challenges of credibility in Colorado. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:916-927.
17. Giles, R. H., Jr. 1978 Wildlife management. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, California, USA.
18. Gottfried, K. 2005. On fraud in science: an exchange. New York Review of Books 52:51.
19. Gould, W. R. 2001. Importance of biometrics education to natural resource professionals. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:1022-1023.
20. Gross, L. 2000. Education for a biocomplex future. Science 288:807.
21. Guthery, F. S., J. J. Lusk, and M. J. Peterson. 2001. The fall of the null hypothesis: liabilities and opportunities. Journal of Wildlife Management 65:379-384.
22. Healey, M. C. 1997. Comment: the interplay of policy, politics, and science. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 54:1427-1429.
23. Hilborn, R., and D. Ludwig. 1993. The limits of applied ecological. research. Ecological Applications 3:50-52.
24. Hutchings, J. A., C. Walters, and R. L. Haedrich. 1997. Is scientific inquiry incompatible with government information control? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 54:1198-1210.
25. Jacobson, S. K., and M. D. McDuff. 1998. Training idiot savants: the lack of human dimensions in conservation biology. Conservation Biology 12:263-267.
26. Johnson, D. H., T. L. Shaffer, and W. E. Newton. 2001. Statistics for wildlifers: how much and what kind? Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:1055-1060.
27. Kerr, S. R., and R. A. Ryder. 1997. The Laurentian Great Lakes experience: a prognosis for the fisheries of Atlantic Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 54:1190-1197.
28. Kessler, W. B. 1995. Wanted: a new generation of environmental problem-solvers. Wildlife Society Bulletin 23:594-599.
29. Kessler, W. B., and A. L. Booth. 1998. Aldo Leopold on education. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26:707-712.
30. Krausman, P. R. 2000. Wildlife management in the twenty-first century: educated predictions. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:490-494.
31. Kuhn, T. S. 1970. The structure of scientific revolutions. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
32. Levins, R., and R. Lewontin. 1985. The dialectical biologist. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
33. Light, S. S. 2001. Adaptive ecosystem assessment and management: the path of last resort? Pages 55-68 in M. E. Jensen and P. S. Bourgeron, editors. A guidebook for integrated ecological assessments. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
34. Lopez, R. R. 2001. Rigor in wildlife education: where the rubber hits the road. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:1038-1042.
35. Ludwig, D., R. Hilborn, and C. Walters. 1993. Uncertainty, resource exploitation, and conservation: lessons from history. Science 260:17,36.
36. Ludwig, D., M. Mangel, and B. Haddad. 2001. Ecology, conservation, and public policy. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32:481-517.
37. Matter, W. J., and R. J. Steidl. 2000. University undergraduate curricula in wildlife: beyond 2000. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:503-507.
38. Mattson, D. J. 1996. Ethics and science in natural resource agencies. BioScience 46:767-771.
39. McCarthy, M. A., and M. A. Burgman. 1995. Coping with uncertainty in forest wildlife planning. Forest Ecology and Management 74:23-36.
40. Miller, A. 1993. The role of analytical science in natural resource decision making. The Journal of Environmental Management 17:563-574.
41. Murphy, D. D., and B. D. Noon. 1991. Coping with uncertainty in wildlife biology. Journal of Wildlife Management 55:773-782.
42. Noss, R. F. 1997. The failure of universities to produce conservation biologists. Conservation Biology 11:1267-1269.
43. Noss, R. F. 1999. Is there a special conservation biology? Ecography 22:113-122.
44. Otis, D. L. 2001. Quantitative training of wildlife graduate students. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:1043-1048.
45. Pielke, R. A., Jr. 2001. Room for doubt. Science 410:151.
46. Platt, J. R. 1964. Strong inference. Science 146:347-353.
47. Pool, R. 1990. Struggling to do science for society. Science 248:672-673.
48. Porter, W. F., and G. A. Baldasarre. 2000. Future directions for the graduate curriculum in wildlife biology: building on our strengths. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:508-513.
49. Pouyat, R. V. 1999. Science and environmental policy-making them compatible. BioScience 49:281-286.
50. Riley, S. J., D. J. Decker, L. H. Carpenter, J. F. Organ, W. F. Siemer, G. F. Mattfield, and G. Parsons. 2002. The essence of wildlife management. Wildlife Society Bulletin 30:585-593.
51. Rittel, J., and M. Webber. 1973. Dilemmas in a general theory of planning. Political Science 4:155-169.
52. Roe, E. 1998. Taking complexity seriously: policy analysis, triangulation and sustainable development. Kluwer Academic, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
53. Romesburg, H. C. 1981. Wildlife science: gaining reliable knowledge. Journal of Wildlife Management 45:293-313.
54. Rykiel, E. J., Jr. 2001. Scientific objectivity, value systems, and policy making. BioScience 51:433-436.
55. Schubel, J. R. 1997. Observations on science and management. American Zoologist 37:563-574.
56. Steidl, R. J., S. DeStefano, and W. J. Matter. 2000. On increasing the quality, reliability, and rigor of wildlife science. Wildlife Society Bulletin 28:518-521.
57. Thomas, J. W. 1986. Effectiveness-the hallmark of the natural resource management professional. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resource Conference 51:27-38.
58. Vig, N. J., and M. E. Kraft, editors. 2000. Environmental policy. CQ Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
59. Walters, C. 1986. Adaptive management of renewable resources. McMillan, New York, New York, USA.
60. Walters, C. J., and R. Green. 1997. Valuation of experimental management options for ecological systems. Journal of Wildlife Management 61:987-1006.
61. Weber, J. R., and C. S. Word. 2001. The communication process as evaluative context: what do nonscientists hear when scientists speak? BioScience 51:487-495.
62. Weinberg, A. 1972. Science and trans-science. Minerva 10:209-222.
63. White, G. C. 2001. Why take calculus? Rigor in wildlife management. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:380-386.
64. Williams, B. K. 2001. Uncertainty, learning, and the optimal management of wildlife. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 8:269-288.
65. Yaffee, S. L. 1994. The wisdom of the spotted owl: policy lessons for a new century. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.