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| Land management system that seeks to protect viable populations of native species uses disturbance regimes adopts a planning timeline of centuries allows human use at levels that do not result in ecological degradation |
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| Goals of ecosystem management |
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| Maintaining integrity, preventing fragmentation, restoring natural regimes |
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| firearms and ammo are taxed to raise money for restoration |
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| Water pollution control act |
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| the restoration of aquatic systems |
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| surface mining control and reclamation act |
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| claiming surface mining areas |
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| Comprehensive environmental response compensation and liability act |
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| bill that contains a superfund ammendment |
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| Return of ecosystem to former use and condition |
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| aestetic enhnancement of disturbed land |
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| Provision of a substitute for original ecosystem |
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| Enhancement of disturbed habitat to former or new use |
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| Restoring original species and structure |
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| productivity, nutrient cycling, water purification |
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| problems of degraded ecosystems |
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| soil texture, moisture, stability, nutrients absent, heavy metals, ph, salinity, alien species |
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| Neil smith prairie restoration |
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| reintroduced bison and elk, restored degraded farm land |
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| ephemeroptera (mayflies), plecoptera (stone flies), tricoptera (cattisflies) |
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| Index of biotic integrity |
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| Compares sample of streams to streams considered pristine. Compared species richness, trophic levels, indicator species |
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| Uses GIS to map common species so they dont become endangered |
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