- ... born.1
- No, I
wasn't born in the Dark Ages, just the 1950's. OK. Maybe that was the dark ages.
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- ... (left)).2
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years ago the U.S. population stood at 307 million, and the world
population stood at a little under 6.8 billion.
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- ... now,3
- And as many as the entire planet had when I was
born.
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- ... leader4
- The Economist calls the editorials
that lead off each edition ``leaders.''
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- ... biology5
- There weren't any ecology and
evolutionary biology departments until the mid 1960s, so far as I am
aware.
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- ...
and systematics.6
- Aldo Leopold was appointed Professor of Game
Management at the University of Wisconsin in 1933, the same year he
published Game Management.
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field.7
- It's worth noting, however, that the journal Biological Conservation began publishing in 1968. Moreover, many
biologists working in resource-oriented departments have regarded
what they do as conservation biology since at least the 1930s. Aldo
Leopold was a wildlife biologist.
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- ... change8
- We will discuss how climate change affects
conservation planning, but we won't talk about cap and trade or
target levels of CO
in the atmosphere.
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- ... conservation9
- We will obviously deal with politics to a
limited extent. It's unavoidable when talking about conservation
issues. Our focus, however, will be on the biological
issues associated with conservation, not the political ones.
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