[Coral-List] The GBR is in trouble, but not dead

[Jim Bohnsack - NOAA Federal]

Good comments Esther.  Aldo Leopold talked about "system" health before the
word "ecosystem" was coined, but his definition and wisdom still apply.

*"H*ealth is defined as the ability for self-renewal"
"Conservation is the effort to understand and promote the capacity for
self-renewal."
The role of science is to understand the conditions necessary for self-renewal
and the
role of management is to use science to create conditions that promote
self-renewal.
                                Aldo Leopold 1949.


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  Aldo Leopold.
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