Natural Areas, Regions, and Two Centuries of Environmental Change on the Great Plains

摘要: A careful reading of recent issues the journal in 2004, "that 'natural' places are Natural Areas Journal, publication areas where human actions have minimally Association, will leave you with changed communities and processes that conclusion humans not a part occur there."1 In fact, stated mission natural areas. When do appear, Association is specifically "to it either as disturbing agents, disrupting benefit protect by minimizing naturalness through, for example, impact."2 introduction exotic plants animals, So this definition, or managers, enhancing places, often quite small held prescribed burning. This out time, protected remnants plant an explicit purposeful exclusion: "We animal were once can probably all agree," wrote editor more widely distributed but since been removed. is, course, unimpeachable goal—the preservation heritage