Every piece of land, no matter how remote or untrammeled, has a boundary. While sometimes boundary lines follow topographic or biological features, more often they follow the straight lines of political dictate and compromise. Administrative boundaries nearly always fragment a landscape, resulting in loss of species that must disperse or migrate across borders, increased likelihood of threats such as alien species or pollutants, and disruption of natural processes such as fire. Despite the importance and ubiquity of boundary issues, remarkably little has been written on the subject.Stewardship Across Boundaries fills that gap in the literature, addressing the complex biological and socioeconomic impacts of both public and private land boundaries in the United States. With contributions from natural resource managers, historians, environmentalists, political scientists, and legal scholars, the book:develops a framework for understanding administrative boundaries and their effects on the land and on human behavior examines issues related to different types of boundaries -- wilderness, commodity, recreation, private-public presents a series of case studies illustrating the efforts of those who have cooperated to promote stewardship across boundaries synthesizes the broad complexity of boundary-related issues and offers an integrated strategy for achieving regional stewardshi.Stewardship Across Boundaries should spur open discussion among students, scientists, managers, and activists on this important topic. It demonstrates how legal, social, and ecological conditions interact in causing boundary impacts and why those factors must be integrated to improve land management. It also discusses research needs and will help facilitate critical thinking within the scientific community that could result in new strategies for managing boundaries and their impacts.
Acknowledgments Introduction
PART I. Understanding Administrative Boundaries and Their Effects Chapter 1. Bounded People, Boundless Land Chapter 2. Ecological Effects of Administrative Boundaries Chapter 3. Social Dimensions of Boundaries: Balancing Cooperation and Self-interest Chapter 4. Laws and Institutions in Cross-boundary Stewardship
PART II. Types of Administrative Boundaries Chapter 5. Boundary Effects on Wilderness and Other Natural Areas Chapter 6. Outdoor Recreation and Boundaries: Opportunities and Challenges Chapter 7. Boundaries or Barriers: New Horizons for Conservation and Private Forests Chapter 8. Boundaries between Public and Private Lands: Defining Obstacles, Finding Solutions
PART III. Case Studies Chapter 9. Big Cypress National Preserve: The Great Compromise Chapter 10. Managing Grazing and Recreation across Boundaries in the Big Cimarron Watershed Chapter 11. Overcoming Boundaries: The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Chapter 12. Partnerships across Park Boundaries: The Rincon Institute and Saguaro National Park Chapter 13. Wilderness and Working Landscapes: The Adirondack Park as a Model Bioregion
PART IV. Building Bridges across Boundaries Chapter 14. Cooperation: A Strategy for Achieving Stewardship across Boundaries Chapter 15. The Continent Indissoluble Chapter 16. Integration: A Beginning for Landscape-scale Stewardship
