Document Type
Newsletter
Volume
3
Issue
2
Editor
Paul Rogers
Publisher
Western Aspen Alliance
Publication Date
5-2012
First Page
1
Last Page
4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
Thinking like a clone: a case for biodiversity
Paul C. Rogers
Aldo Leopold famously asked us to consider 'Thinking Like a Mountain' in his essay of the same name from A Sand County Almanac (1949; full essay). While many are familiar with these sentiments, it seems that we haven't fully employed them in our land management practices, particularly where multiple stewards clash over shared resources. Across North America's forests, quaking aspen play a disproportionate role as oases of biodiversity, though our extractive activities by-and-large have not reflected this critical function. As we move forward, let us consider thinking like an aspen clone; or perhaps, a more complex community of many clones.
Recommended Citation
Western Aspen Alliance, "Tremblings, May 2012" (2012). Tremblings. Paper 50.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/tremblings/50