Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans!

Michael J. Vandeman, Ph.D.

Machine-Free Trails Association

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"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous." Julius Caesar I. II. 194-5

"The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth … the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if only we had the eyes to see…" Edward Abbey

"Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by the regular contact with outdoor growths — animals, trees, sun warmth, and free skies — or it will dwindle and pale." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost…" Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The human race will not destroy itself from lack of information. The human race will destroy itself through lack of appreciation." Matthew Fox

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Anne Frank

"As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait." Joanna Macy

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

"When we were children, we thought our parents were taking care of things. Sometimes they were. As adults, we like to think that there are some very wise people, usually older than we are, taking care of the planet and us." Kary Mullis

"It is not with gentle persuasion that one wrests the kernel from the nut." ("Oju boro ko ni a fi ngba omo l'owo ekuro.") Yoruba proverb

"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money can not be eaten." Cree Indian Prophecy

"The Earth is our mother. What befalls the earth befalls the children of the Earth." Chief Seattle

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar;
I love not Man the less, but Nature more"
George Gordon, Lord Byron.

"If we do not speak for Earth who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?" Carl Sagan

"An animals's eyes have the power to speak a great language." Martin Buber

"This is the true joy of living. This being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. This being thoroughly used up before being thrown on the scrap heap. This being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod, full of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." G. B. Shaw

"The traditional Hopi people preserve the sacred knowledge about the way of the Earth because the true Hopi people know that the Earth is a living, growing person. And all things on it are her children." Yumi Horikoshi

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein

"If Diogenes were to live today, he would look with his lantern for an honest person in vain." - Albert Einstein

"If you want to be good to the environment, stay away from it." Edward L. Glaeser

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Jane Goodall

"The purest joy of all is the joy of nature." Leo Tolstoy

"What must be opposed is the pernicious belief that the universe is human-centered, that all else on Earth in land, sky and water is of lesser value than human life. No divine providence has given us the right to plough, mine, slash and burn, displacing and exterminating all organisms except our own kind, tormenting the paradise into which we are born, often only to satisfy frivolous wants." Stan Rowe

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." Rabindranath Tagore

"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they [especially mountain bikers] think it's hell." Harry S. Truman

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." Dante Alighieri

"Environmentalism can most simply be defined as the extension of the Golden Rule to include other species." "Wildlife must be given top priority, because they can't protect themselves from us." "Mountain biking can be succinctly defined as 'cheap thrills attained at the expense of other trail users and the natural world'". Mike Vandeman

"For me I have a strong desire to contribute to a peaceful life through painting. The peace of humankind, this is something really precious. This is something of the utmost importance not just for me but for everyone else. It goes without saying that America is very rich in natural resources. In other words natural blessings. So what can Americans leave for future generations? I'm talking about something the whole of humanity can aim for. Some kind of big objective. After all a real spiritual awareness has to be built in order to build peace. In many ways America is largely wasting what nature is providing us. The great teaching of our Japanese ancestors is do not disobey nature, always go with nature anywhere in any circumstance with gratitude. In the High Sierras in the evening it gets very cold. The coyotes howl in the distance. The moon arcs across the sky. The trees are standing here and there and it is very quiet. You can learn from the teachings within this quietness. Well, you can learn from many things. Some people are taught by speeches or talking but I think it is important that you are taught by silence. Immerse yourself in nature, listen to what nature has to tell you in its quietness so that you can learn and grow." Chiura Obata

"I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, pp.252-3

"Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act." Albert Einstein

"I'd rather be a corpse than a coward." Mary Ellen Pleasant

"We all do what we want to do, and we rationalize it afterwards." Marc Hamer

"There are none so blind as those who will not see." John Heywood (1546)

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Jane Goodall

"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." ? Albert Einstein

"We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert." J. Robert Oppenheimer

"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Aldo Leopold

"I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all." Gary Snyder, Axe Handles

"He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

"Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish." John Muir

"Lots of people talk to animals, " said Pooh. "Maybe, but ..." "Not very many listen, though," he said. "That's the problem," he added. Hoff, Benjamin, The Tao of Pooh

References

These are essential works for understanding and preventing the destruction of the Earth's ecosystems, including our own. What could be more important?!

• Required Reading for the Entire Planet
• To Do List for the Entire Planet

Lectures Given at International Environmental Conferences

• The Animals Came Dancing - Native American and European Rationalizations for Killing Wildlife - Do the Animals Really Care?! (Eighth International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable (TRT8), Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, February 16, 2003)
• How (and Why) to Do Habitat Restoration (California Invasive Plant Council, Chico, California, October 26, 2023)
• Empathy – The Missing Ingredient in Conservation Biology (Society for Conservation Biology, Oakland, California, July 17, 2012; Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education, Malibu, California, May 1, 2016)
• The First International Auto-Free Cities Conference (New York City, May 3, 1991)
• (Hopefully Not) Coming to a School Near You: Mountain Bike Racing (Association for Middle Level Education, Austin, TX, October 10, 2016)
• How Mathematics Can Help Conservation Biology (American Mathematical Society (AMS)/Mathematical Association of America (MAA), San Francisco, California, January 14, 2010)
• How to Stop Highway Expansion (Second Ecological City Conference, Adelaide, Australia, April 19, 1992; 12th International Pedestrian Conference, October 2-5, 1991)
• The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People - A Review of the Literature (Society for Conservation Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, August 2, 2004; Natural Areas Association Conference, Chicago, IL, October 16, 2004; 7th Annual Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium, center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University, January 22, 2005; International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Mid-Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden, June 18, 2005; A Seminar on Need Based Techno-Sciences for Sustainable Rural Development through Community Action, The Centre for Research on New International Economic Order (CReNIEO), Muttukadu, India, August 3, 2005; Natural Areas Association Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, September 22, 2005; International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 7, 2006; Society for Conservation Biology, San Jose, CA, June 27, 2006; Natural Areas Association Conference, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, September 21, 2006; Redefining Wilderness Symposium, California State University at San Francisco, April 6, 2007; Society for Conservation Biology, Beijing, China, July 15, 2009; Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education, Malibu, California, May 1, 2010; Science for Parks, Parks for Science, University of California, Berkeley, March 26, 2015; George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, Oakland, CA, April 1, 2015; International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, Austin, TX, June 28, 2016); California Native Plant Society, Los Angeles, CA, February 1, 2018
• The Myth of the Sustainable Lifestyle (Society for Conservation Biology, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, July 30, 2001; Seventh International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable (TR T7), Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, February 17, 2002; 6th Annual Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium, University of California, Davis, January 31, 2004); North American Association for Environmental Education, Oakland, California, October 12, 2012; Elsevier Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference, Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2016
• Pedalling Upwind - Why Halting Highway Construction Belongs on the Bicyclist's Agenda (Conference Velo Mondiale, Montreal, Quebec, September 13, 1992)
• The Nature of Consciousness and the Meaning of Life (Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, April 11, 2008)
• Selling Snake Oil: Last Child in the Woods –– Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Victoria, BC, June 6, 2009; Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education, Occidental, CA, May 1, 2011; National Association for Interpretation, St. Paul, MN, November 12, 2011)
• Trail-Building: Habitat Destruction by a Different Name (Environmental, Cultural & Social Sustainability, Vancouver, BC, January 17, 2019; Sport, Animals, and Ethics, May 28, 2021)
• What Is Homo Sapiens' Place in Nature, from an Objective (Biocentric) Point of View? (Society for Conservation Biology, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, July 15, 2002; Nature, Science, Technology, and Religion, Eco Vision center, Church of South India, Madras Diocese, Muttukadu, India, November 28, 2003)
• Wildlife and the Ecocity - Attitudes Toward Wildlife (Third International Ecocity Conference, Dakar, Senegal, January 12, 1996 and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Missoula, Montana, July 18, 1997)
• Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits to Humans! (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, February 21, 1998; American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium on Conservation Biology, University of Colorado, Grand Junction, Colorado, May 18, 1998; the World Wilderness Congress, Bangalore, India, October 27, 1998; "For the Love of Nature?", The Centre for Human Ecology and the Institute for Deep Ecology UK, Findhorn, Scotland, June 27, 1999; National Science Teachers Association Western Area Convention, Reno, Nevada, December 4, 1999; Society for Conservation Biology, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, June 10, 2000; Sixth International Tsukuba Bioethics Roundtable (TRT6), Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan, October 27, 2000); 5th Annual Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium, University of California, Berkeley, February 1, 2003; 30th Natural Areas Conference, Natural Areas Association, Madison, Wisconsin, September 27, 2003; Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, June 25, 2005; Ecocity World Summit, San Francisco, California, April 23, 2008; Sport, Animals, and Ethics, May 28, 2021)

The Anthropocentric Management of Our Parks and Wildlife - Taking Wildlife's Point of View

"A step beyond Primeval management would be human exclosure zones: large areas where no human beings, including scientific researchers or rangers, would be permitted." Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, p.68.

"Other wildernesses might well be uninhabited by humans - perhaps even off-limits to humans: buffered by surrounding, more accessible lands." Anthony Weston, Back to Earth, p.132.

"People and condors don't mix." David S. Wilcove, The Condor's Shadow, p.239.

"Laws may prevent exploitation or permanent occupation of wilderness areas, as in the case of national parks, but they cannot protect them against the damaging effects resulting from the mere presence of innumerable tourists", Rene' Dubos, The Wooing of the Earth, p.29. "There is no evidence ... that early humans always lived in ecological harmony with Nature out of respect for it", ibid., p.63. "The wilderness is being loved to death. The conflict between preservation and recreation is becoming more intense as more people seek the wilderness experience", ibid., p.136. "The only solution to the overuse and degradation of wilderness areas is in restriction of visitors", ibid., p.138.

"Cities should be built on one side of the street" Bob Kaufman.

"The fossil record shows that the arrival of human beings in an area has always coincided with a wave of extinctions" Reg Morrison, The Spirit in the Gene, pp.147-8.

"Instead of islands of wilderness in a sea of humanity, we should have islands of humanity in a sea of wilderness", Thomas Lovejoy, Life stories, Heather Newbold, ed., p.49. "Although humanity is part of nature, it is no use just saying that. We have to work out how we harmonize with nature." Max Nicholson, Nature Conservancy, ibid., p.119.

"Deep Ecology is about living in closer relationship to the earth. It's also about respecting the wild and leaving some of it alone. To be in close relationship with the earth do we have to physically touch each rock? Do we have to zealously guard our option to step on each blade of grass?" Tom Warren, Tomzbox@hotmail.com.

"A true environmentalist thinks of how he can accommodate nature, not how it can accommodate him." Chris Maddy, CMaddy@HycorBiomedical.com

"Did you know that feeding or closely approaching any park wildlife is prohibited by federal law? Your food is a threat to the survival of park animals. It can damage their health, make them vulnerable to death from cars, or lead to dangerous behavior. Treat your food as if it were poison to animals, because the result is often the same. Even though animals may look tame - especially when searching for a hand-out -they are capable of inflicting serious injury, and in extreme cases, causing death. Never attempt to touch or closely approach any park wildlife. Instead, view them through binoculars or telephoto lenses. If an animal is aware of your presence, you're too close." (from the Yosemite National Park web page, http://www.nps.gov/yose/guide/yguide4.pdf - a pretty strong statement, for a public agency!)

"Only by keeping our distance from wilderness - some wilderness, at least - can we keep from fouling the wellspring of our own life" Evan Eisenberg, The Ecology of Eden, p.97.

"Adult eagles decreased some activities by as much as 59 percent per day when humans were near. The amount of time nesting areas were left unattended increased by 24 percent. Some of these behavioral changes may have direct effect on the survival of nestling eagles, the researchers note. When humans were near the nests, the amount of prey consumed by the eagle chicks decreased by an average of 29 percent per day. The number of feeding rounds at the nest decreased by 20 percent per day." Environmental News Network, March 7, 2000

"One might think that it would be best if humanity rejoined nature as quickly as possible. With our present billions, that would devastate what little non-human nature remains. Quite the contrary, we must separate humanity from what is left of nature. We must quarantine this dangerous species from other life. We are now starkly different from all other life - truly unique - and will remain so. The human cultural genie cannot be stuffed back into nature's genetic bottle. Our presence will forevermore be unnatural and have to be controlled. Haven eaten the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, we cannot return to the Garden of Eden without careful supervision." Russell Merle Genet, The Chimpanzees Who Would Be Ants, p. 175.

"The mere presence of people has been shown to be sufficient to cause harassment to some species whatever the recreational activity or number of people involved. ... The occurrence of even a few people inhibited the little tern ... from returning to its nest [sometimes leading to] breeding failure." Wildland Recreation - Ecology and Management, Hammitt and Cole, p. 82. "Species of wildlife that are secretive and sensitive to the presence of humans may become permanently displaced from recreational areas. ... In Colorado bighorn sheep were forced into higher elevation ranges during lambing season, resulting in weather conditions that caused 80 percent incidence of pneumonia and a resultant decline in population." Ibid., p.87. "The simplest, most effective means of minimizing recreational impact is to prohibit all use". Ibid., p.205.

"The history of fire, especially in the context of the increased dominance of humans, has produced a progressively fire-adapted ecology, which argues for human-free wildlife areas and against prescribed burns under many circumstances." N. Caldararo, "Human ecological intervention and the role of forest fires in human ecology".

"Conservation efforts in the forested regions of Africa, the last and only home of the three African apes, are failing because of a couple of myths ... the myth of the noble savage ... [and] that economic improvements necessarily lead people to protect their forests and wildlife". Craig Stanford, Significant Others, pp.195-6.

"People have been climbing Fuji-san for over 1,000 years, but until just over 100 years ago this was an activity for Shinto or Buddhist priests and pilgrims only." Hiking in Japan, Paul Hunt, p.119.

"In all the Earth there is no place dedicated to solitude." Chief Seattle, The Suquamish Museum, 1985:36.

"Egg collectors and researchers have noted that even one visit within sight of a nest may cause desertion and abandonment of eggs." Nonconsumptive Outdoor Recreation, Fish & Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report - Wildlife # 252, p.82.

"We should live off nature's interest, not her principal." Boo Heisey

"Florida's most destructive nonindigenous population ... will probably continue to be the 14 million people derived from foreign ancestries." Strangers in Paradise, Simberloff et al, eds., p.315.

"All plants, flowers, natural scenery and animal life are protected by law from human disturbance of any kind. They are the principle attractions of most parks and are integral parts of the natural community." California State Park System Rules and Regulations.

"The chief characteristic of habitat needed by [the wolverine] is its isolation from the presence and influence of humans", "In Brief", Winter, 2003, p.15 (Earthjustice).

"Humans are as qualified to be stewards of the Earth as goats are to be gardeners." James Lovelock

"This mountain would be a superior place if people stayed off it altogether." Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer, p.248.

"Humans, even in low numbers, are incompatible with the persistence of megaherbivores and top carnivores, two groups of animals that are among the most crucial to maintaining normal ecosystem functioning." John Terborgh and Carel Van Schaik, Making Parks Work, p.7. "As a matter of principle, people-free parks [no human residents] should always be the ultimate goal. It is the only goal that over the long run is consistent with the requirements of biodiversity conservation. Thus, all relevant policies should be directed to reducing the human presence within parks." p.310.

"The tradition of protected areas in what is today the USSR began with the various 'holy places', 'sacred forests' and 'sacred groves' set aside from time immemorial by aboriginal peoples who deified the creative forces of nature. These ritual sites, sometimes quite sizable, where not only hunting, fishing, tree cutting, or any other economic activity was prohibited, but where the mere presence of man was forbidden, were the prototypes of the present-day nature reserves that are strictly protected." International Handbook of National Parks and Nature Reserves, Craig Allin, ed., p.395. "Even national parks and hunting management units, however, have areas where man is admitted under no circumstances, and animals and plants are left undisturbed under strict protection." p.403.

"Between the villages there would be three types of forest patches: forest sanctuaries, dense woodland and sacred groves. The first type was called raksha, 'sanctuary'. This would be left entirely to itself - no human would enter it - as a sanctuary for wildlife. If a bird had made a nest on a tree branch the entry of a single person could disturb its habitat. Therefore this small forest would be completely protected from human disturbances. During the daytime the birds and animals would go into the village or wherever they wished but could return safely to their habitat at night. All of them living in that patch would feel quite safe." Hinduism and Ecology, Ranchor Prime, p.17.

"Basic human ethics suggests that we must not humanize every square yard of the planet" Douglas R. Tompkins, Welfare Ranching

"As a rule around the world, wherever a people entered a virgin environment, most of the megafauna soon vanished. Also doomed were a substantial fraction of the most easily captured ground birds and tortoises." p.92. "The noble savage never existed." p.102. E.O. Wilson, The Future of Life

"For every living creature [including humans!], there are places where it does not belong." p.251 "I believe it is a public responsibility to safeguard what we can of wilderness before the great push of man's numbers; and to safeguard with it ... the shy wild ones that need man-less expanses in which to thrive." p.262. Paul L. Errington, Of Predation and Life

"The earth does not belong to humans." Arne Naess

"Of what avail are forty freedoms, without a blank spot on the map?" Aldo Leopold.

"I am waiting for forests and animals to reclaim the earth as theirs." Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Man's heart away from nature, becomes hard; [the Lakota] knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too." Luther Standing Bear (c.1868-1939)

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." Where I Lived and What I Lived For, Walden, Henry David Thoreau

"The fault is great in man or woman,
Who steals a goose from off a common,
But what can plead that man's excuse,
Who steals a common from a goose."
The Tickler, 1821

"We need to witness ... some life pasturing freely where we never wander." Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Two feather'd guests from Alabama, two together,
And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
And every day the she-bird couch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them,
Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating."
Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", Leaves of Grass

"Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo." Basho

• The Animals Came Dancing, by Howard L. Harrod
• The Animals Came Dancing - Native American and European Rationalizations for Killing Wildlife - Do the Animals Really Care?!
• Anthropocentrism – the Root of All Evil!
• Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
• Appropriate and Inappropriate Use of Bicycles - Mountain Biking versus Wildlife
• Are Sustainable Communities Possible?
• Are We Creating Biological Deserts?
• "Assessing and Understanding Trail Degradation: Results from Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area", by Jeff L. Marion
• The Bay Area Ridge Trail - Yet ANOTHER Human Playground, and Less Wildlife Habitat
• The Bay Trail - A Disaster for Wildlife
• The Berkeley Bay Trail
• A Berkeley Department of Wildlife
• Biology, by Neil A. Campbell
• Biology Revisioned, by Elisabet Sahtouris
• Briones "Pilot Project" - A Disaster for the Parks!
• The "Brush Hog" Mentality - Fireproofing the Parks
• The "Brush Hog" Mentality in the East Bay Regional Parks
• The Bureau of Land Management's National Off-Highway Vehicle Management Strategy
• Canyonlands National Park's River Management Plan Doesn't Protect Wildlife
• "A Citizen's Guide to Ecosystem Management", by Reed Noss, Ph.D.
• Closing the National Parks: Long Overdue!
• Cold Fusion and the Destruction of Life on the Earth
• Commercial Water Park at Shadow Cliffs - the Commercialization of Our Parks
• "A Comparative Study of Impacts to Mountain Bike Trails in Five Common Ecological Regions of the Southwestern U.S.", by Dave D. White et al
• Conservation Biology Should Be a Required Course!
• Contested Lands - Windfalls for Wildlife?
• A Cure for Violence?
• (De-)Mapping the Earth
• The Development of Mulholland Ridge
• Do Humans Think?
• Dogs and People in Our Parks
• Dogs in Waterfront Park - Dogs Are Being Given Priority Over Wildlife
• Draft California Recreational Trails Plan
• E-Bikes
• E-Bikes and Conservation Biology
• East Bay Municipal Utility District's Watershed Master Plan
• East Bay Regional Park District Draft Master Plan 1996
• East Bay Regional Park District Master Plan Revision 1995
• East Bay Regional Park District's Biased "Bike Issues Committee"
• Editorial: The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
• The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People - - Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
• Empathy – The Missing Ingredient in Conservation Biology
• Energy Biosciences Institute
• Equal Access to Our Parks
• Equity - Environmental vs. Human
• Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species, by Paul and Anne Ehrlich
• Frequently Asked Questions about Mountain Biking
• Ghost Biologists (Where Are They When You Most Need Them?) - A review of Ghost Bears - Exploring the Biodiversity Crisis, by R. Edward Grumbine
• Global Warming and the Thorium Molten Salt Reactor
• Grand Canyon Development Plan
• Habitat Fragmentation
• Habitat Off-Limits To Humans - The Purchase of Diablo Ranch By EBRPD
• Habitat Off-Limits to Humans in the East Bay Regional Parks
• Habitat Restoration in the East Bay Regional Park District
• Handbook On Environment Education For Teachers
• "Harmless" Recreation Kills Wildlife!
• Help! Mountain Biking Is Wrecking All of Our Parks and Wildlife Preserves!
• (Hopefully Not) Coming to a Park Near You: "Stealth" eBikes
• (Hopefully Not) Coming to a School Near You: Mountain Bike Racing
• How (and Why) to Do Habitat Restoration
• How to Eliminate Homelessness
• How to Fight Mountain Biking
• How to Remove French Broom: Do the Math!
• How to Remove Thoroughwort (Ageratina adenophora)
• The Human Genome Project
• The "Human Playground" Style of Park Management at Yosemite and the Grand Canyon
• The "Human Playground" Theory of Park Management
• Human-Free Habitat - The Wildlands Project Land Conservation Strategy
• Human Selfishness
• The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People - A Review of the Literature
• The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People - A Review of the Literature; Implications for Amphibians and Reptiles
• Invasive Non-Native Plants of the East Bay Regional Parks
• Is Anyone Listening?
• Jetskis Should Be Banned - Jet Skis in San Francisco Waters
• Last Child in the Woods –– Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv
• Lawrence Livermore Lab and the Ecological Study Area
• The Laziness Epidemic
• The Lonely Planet Guidebook to Japan, or Could This Be the Reason the Lonely Planet Is So Lonely?
• Los Vaqueros Reservoir
• Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Bans Mountain Biking! God Bless Them!
• More Roads in Our Parks?
• Motor Vehicles Don't Belong in Our Parks!
• Mountain Bike Damage in Crockett Hills Regional Park
• Mountain Bike Races in Briones Regional Park
• Mountain Bike Racing at Boggs Mountain
• Mountain Biking Addiction
• Mountain Biking and the Entitlement Mentality
• Mountain Biking as an Addiction
• Mountain Biking in Briones Regional Park
• Mountain Biking in the East Bay Regional Parks
• Mountain Biking Is Being Given Priority Over Wildlife
• Mountain Biking Myths
• Mountain Biking Threatens Wildlife
• Mountain Biking versus Wildlife in the Sierra Club
• The Myth of the Sustainable Lifestyle
• Northern Great Plains Management Plans Revision - Draft EIS (Restore the Northern Great Plains Ecosystem)
• The Oakland Hills Fire - Biased News Coverage
• Ohlone Regional "Wilderness" Mismanagement
• Ohlone Regional "Wilderness" Mismanagement #2
• Oil Drilling Off the California Coast
• Opposition to Abortion
• Opposition to Abortion (to Pope Benedict XVI)
• Park District Closes Road to Protect Newts!
• "Parks Are For People"
• Priorities
• "Private Property" vs. Wildlife
• Proposed Determination of Critical Habitat for the Alameda Whipsnake
• Proposed Niles Canyon “Trail”
• Proposed Sierra Club Resolution Against Mountain Biking
• Protecting the Crystal Springs Reservoir and Watershed from Mountain Bikers and Other Recreationists
• The "Quality of Life" Constitutional Amendment
• Raise Your Sights! (Give Wildlife Their Due)
• "Recovering" the Alameda whipsnake
• "Recovering" the Alameda whipsnake; causality in humans
• Reservoir Construction vs. Conservation
• Restoring the Bison - Northern Great Plains Management Plan Revision
• Restoring the Grizzly to California
• Rethinking the Impacts of Recreation
• Revised Statute 2477 - A Road-Building Threat to Our Public Lands
• Roads Fragment Habitat - Draft RS 2477 Regulations
• Roadside Pesticide Spraying
• Saving the Grizzly
• The Selection of a Pope
• Scientific Honesty and Honest Scientists
• "Service Trips" Are Obsolete!
• The Sierra Club
• The Sierra Club’s East Bay Public Lands Committee
• The Sierra Club's Mountain (Off-Road) Biking Policy
• The Society for Conservation Biology Has Lost Its Way
• A Strategy for Saving the Earth
• The Supreme Court Is Supremely Ignorant
• The Supreme Court Is Supremely Irrelevant
• Taboo Topics in Conservation Biology – The Conservation Biology Emperor's New Clothes
• Telling the Truth about Chimpanzees
• This I Believe
• To Whom Does Gaza Belong, REALLY?
• Trail-Building: Habitat Destruction by a Different Name
• Trail Development vs. Wildlife Protection in the East Bay Regional Parks
• Urban Ecology's International Ecological Rebuilding Program
• Vote for an Animal to Represent the City of Berkeley
• The U.S.-Mexico Border Fence
• A Walk Through Time and the "Recovery" of Biodiversity
• Water Supply Management Plan - Give Priority to Wildlife!
• Water Supply Management Plan vs. Wildlife Habitat
• What Is Homo Sapiens' Place in Nature, from an Objective (Biocentric) Point of View?
• What Is Mathematics, Really?, by Reuben Hersh
• "Where man himself is a visitor who does not remain"
• Who Is the Most Marginalized of All?
• Who Owns the Earth?
• Why We Should Provide Wildlife Habitat Off-Limits to Humans
• Wilderness and the American Mind, by Roderick Nash - The Many Forms of Anthropocentrism
• Wildlife? In Berkeley?
• Wildlife? In Berkeley?! (Designating Plant and Animal Mascots for the City)
• Wildlife and the Ecocity - Attitudes Toward Wildlife
• Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits to Humans!
• Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits to Humans! (#2)
• Yoho National Park and the Automobile Religion