Defending Illusions Federal Protection of

Defending Illusions examines the science, philosophy, and law of ecosystem management. Allan Fitzsimmons clearly illustrates how efforts to make federal protection of ecosystems the centerpiece of national environmental policy rest on weak science and a worldview that places concern for the well-being of nature ahead of the well-being of people.

Allan K. Fitzsimmons heads Balanced Resource Solutions, an environmental consultancy in Woodbridge, Virginia, and is an adjunct scholar with the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana.

List of Maps and Tables

ix

Preface

xi

Introduction: Government and the New Relationship with Nature

1

(22)

Everyone Knows What an Ecosystem Is . . . Or Do They?

23

(20)

Mapping Ecosystems

43

(26)

Visions of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

69

(20)

Claims of Environmental Calamity

89

(26)

Nature Worship and the New Paradigm

115

(24)

Science, Ecosystems, and the Emperor's New Clothes

139

(32)

The Law and Ecosystem Protection

171

(36)

Ecosystem Protection Proposals

207

(24)

Human Consequences of the New Paradigm

231

(28)

Improving Environmental Stewardship

259

(28)

Conclusion: Knowledge and Responsibility

287

(2)

Selected Bibliography

289

(30)

Index

319

(12)

About the Author

331

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Defending Illusions Federal Protection of Ecosystems

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