Principles of Public Trust Thinking

Hare, Darragh; Blossey, Bernd

doi:10.1080/10871209.2014.942759

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“…Principles of Public Trust Thinking (Hare and Blossey, 2014) are helpful in strategically contemplating roles and responsibilities of land managers, scientists, citizens, and voters. Holding everyone accountable and accept ing responsibilities may break inertia and unwillingness to change.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Principles of Public Trust Thinking (Hare and Blossey, 2014) will guide the development of ideas regarding these interactions, relationships, and responsibilities. I do not assume that this is more than the beginning of a long discussion that I hope will rejuvenate biological control and lead to stronger relationships with conservation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…If we agree that normative principles for environ mental stewardship exist, albeit in widely different articulations (Weiss, 1989), it then becomes a question of how to enable and enforce their implementation to account for long-term interests of current and future beneficiaries (Hare and Blossey, 2014). But ideas outlin ing the most suitable approaches to stop devastating anthropogenic transformations of our world's ecosys tems (Barnosky et al, 2011) are contested.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Public Trust Thinking (PTT) (Sax, 1970;Weiss, 1989;Blumm and Wood, 2013;Hare and Blossey, 2014;Wood, 2014) can help advance environmental steward ship in policy, law, practice, implementation, and enforcement (Chapter 8). PTT encapsulates environ mental ethics that have independently and repeatedly emerged across cultures, and thus are not specific to a region or country but applicable worldwide (Wood, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Trustees turn these management obligations over to trust managers (Smith, 2011;Decker et al, 2014). In turn, beneficiaries (the public) are entitled to hold trustees to account if they fail in their obligations (Hare and Blossey, 2014). I will use PTT principles to offer a critique of the status quo in invasive species management and biological con trol and then propose fundamental biological control principles as a guide to the future.…”

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After decades of high deer populations, North American forests have lost much of their previous biodiversity. Any landscape‐level recovery requires substantial reductions in deer herds, but modern societies and wildlife management agencies appear unable to devise appropriate solutions to this chronic ecological and human health crisis. We evaluated the effectiveness of fertility control and hunting in reducing deer impacts at Cornell University. We estimated spring deer populations and planted Quercus rubra seedlings to assess deer browse pressure, rodent attack, and other factors compromising seedling performance. Oak seedlings protected in cages grew well, but deer annually browsed ≥60% of unprotected seedlings. Despite female sterilization rates of >90%, the deer population remained stable. Neither sterilization nor recreational hunting reduced deer browse rates and neither appears able to achieve reductions in deer populations or their impacts. We eliminated deer sterilization and recreational hunting in a core management area in favor of allowing volunteer archers to shoot deer over bait, including at night. This resulted in a substantial reduction in the deer population and a linear decline in browse rates as a function of spring deer abundance. Public trust stewardship of North American landscapes will require a fundamental overhaul in deer management to provide for a brighter future, and oak seedlings may be a promising metric to assess success. These changes will require intense public debate and may require new approaches such as regulated commercial hunting, natural dispersal, or intentional release of important deer predators (e.g., wolves and mountain lions). Such drastic changes in deer management will be highly controversial, and at present, likely difficult to implement in North America. However, the future of our forest ecosystems and their associated biodiversity will depend on evidence to guide change in landscape management and stewardship.

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Principles of Public Trust Thinking

Cited by 30 publications

References 25 publications

The future of biological control

The future of biological control

Measuring and evaluating ecological outcomes of biological control introductions

Red oak seedlings as indicators of deer browse pressure: Gauging the outcome of different white‐tailed deer management approaches

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