ABSTRACT
Natural resource professionals might assume that after the 1960s and the 1990s they have seen all of the problems from all of the political directions all of the time. After all, 1960s legislative action greatly restricted the latitude of decisions by professionals but left them to bring the bad news to the local people. This chapter demonstrates some of the major challenges to the old ways of doing business by natural resource professionals and agencies. Of particular interest is the fact that most of the “perturbations” to the ecosystem are shaped by the contours of change outside the usual domain of resource agencies; yet only small attention to these changes has been paid by the agency research, policy, training, and management programs that should be anticipating and dealing with the emerging challenges.
