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Wisconsin's Biodiversity as a Management Issue - A Report to Department of Natural Resources Managers

This report presents a Department strategy for the conservation of biological diversity. It provides Department of Natural Resources (DNR) employees with an overview of the issues associated with biodiversity and provides a common point of reference for incorporating the conservation of biodiversity into our management framework. It will be used as a discussion piece for dialogue with the public and will be useful for Natural Resources Board members as they include attention to biodiversity in the development of public policy.

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Our goal is sustainable ecosystems. These ecosystems, whether highly modified by humans or largely natural, exhibit ecological characteristics that maintain biological diversity across all land uses. To reach this goal we must develop management solutions that blend people's needs with nature's capacity to sustain those needs over the long term. These management solutions must be founded in the perspective that humans are part of, not apart from, the global ecosystem. Like all species, we depend on a viable biosphere. But unlike other species, we have it in our power to destroy the ecosystems on which we depend. Today's decisions will have far-reaching impacts on the choices and quality of life available to us in the future.

To facilitate download times and ease of use we have made this report available as several PDF files, so that you may choose and download sections at your convenience.

Last Revised: Tuesday January 02 2007