Hailey, ID: Congress makes the decisions but for the most part is ignorant of the science behind the need for ecosystem management. How can this be remedied?
Every effort has been made to make the scientific documents and the EISs understandable to Congress and the public, but the major documents are necessarily technical in nature. To provide a readable and concise document explaining the principles of ecosystem management, how ecosystems work, and how decision-making can use the best available science, the Science Integration Team (SIT) prepared a Framework for Ecosystem Management in the Interior Columbia Basin and Portions of the Klamath and Great Basins (June 1996). To summarize the key scientific findings in an accessible and helpful way, the SIT published two documents, Status of the Interior Columbia Basin: Summary of Scientific Findings (November 1996), and Highlighted Scientific Findings of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (May 1997). All of these documents, and the full scientific assessments, are available free of charge to the public from the Publications Distribution Department, Pacific Northwest Resear
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