Mr. Prosper, you talked about managing habitats, or words to that effect, and I think the question has to be asked: managing for what? I think we all have a good idea, but there are two schools of thought. One is the “leave it alone and it'll be okay” approach, but that really doesn't work on the working landscape. Or do we actively manage landscapes for specific ecological services? Those two require very different policy directions.
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