ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a critical examination of the evolution of some of the visions of natural resource agencies as they seek to order their response to some of the challenges. It contributes to our understanding of some of the underlying aspects of the “new perspectives” approach and how that led into the now favored “ecosystem management” approach. The popularity of courses, modules, and talk on leadership among people in the natural resource area has had a period of steady growth as the public has pressed for greater participation in the resource decisions that influence their lives, interests, and passions. Bioregionalism is a vision that has a fairly substantial history. Certainly the emergence of interest in ecosystem management and the rise of landscape ecology as a special kind of ecology will be strong influences upon a more chastened but more useful bioregional approach.
