April 20, 2008
Conservation Today
The term conservation should be a fairly straightforward concept. We hear the word in Conservation District, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Conservation Resource Alliance, and in Land Conservancies. Google tells me that in natural resources circles, conservation is defined as “the protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife, and of natural resources such as forests, soil, and water”. The term, however, has been used in reference to so many different efforts by such a variety of groups; I thought it appropriate to review.

To me, the most important term in the above definition is the word management. Protection, preservation, and restoration...More