ABSTRACT
A major problem with management in the past has been its emphasis on game species and lack of attention to other organisms. This is not the desire of most managers, but, rather, the result of funding. Management practices too often focus upon a single species—either a game species or an agricultural or otherwise economically valuable one. Although this is understandable, we must take into account how such management will affect the total community. Economic interests are strongly linked to the quest for energy sources, a major problem that conservationists, and habitats, will face in the next few years. It will be a difficult task to save valuable habitats from destructive changes due to the construction of pipelines, off-shore drillings, and the Bureau of Land Management. There have been many failures, as well as some rewarding successes, in the history of habitat management. Both the failures and the successes have taught us much about the ways in which natural communities function.
