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Dinosaur Ramblings
Author(s) -
SCALET CHARLES G.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the journal of wildlife management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1937-2817
pISSN - 0022-541X
DOI - 10.2193/2007-086
Subject(s) - ethos , agency (philosophy) , wildlife , wildlife management , natural resource , wildlife conservation , political science , resource (disambiguation) , ecology , natural resource management , state (computer science) , public administration , sociology , social science , biology , computer network , algorithm , computer science , law
Over the last 35 years there has been a shift in university wildlife and fisheries academic programs away from management and toward an ecology or conservation ethos. These university changes have been in both research and education. A similar change has occurred in direction among state and federal natural resource agencies. However, the changes exhibited by both groups have not been to the same degree. I believe university academic programs are now scaled more to the ecology—conservation side, while agencies still average to the management side. This represents a disconnect because university academic programs conduct research for these agencies (and others) and also educate future agency employees and provide technical services to agencies.

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