TOO EARLY TO TELL, OR TOO LATE TO RESCUE? ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT UNDER SCRUTINY
“The Forest Service’s definition of adaptive management does not emphasize experimentation but rather rational planning coupled with trial and error learning. Here ‘adaptive’ management has become a buzzword, a fash- ionable label that means less than it seems to promise.”
Kai Lee, 1999 KEY FINDINGS
• A new approach to the research-management relations is required.The natural tension between the two arenas can produce strengthened relations and improved learning, particularly with focussed input from lead scientists and AMA coordinators.
• The AMA research effort is an important complement to PNW Research Station direction and priorities.The AMAs represent an additional research setting, one that offers important opportunities to test, validate, and possibly revise standards and guides contained within the NWFP.
• The AMA research must be grounded in a local sense of priority and need, established by strong links between management and research.At the same time, designing research to maximize its applicability across the whole AMA system is also productive.
Credits: USDA Forest Service, Science Findings issue thirty-three / april 2001
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