Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Online
    • Archive
    • Subject Collections
  • Info For
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Subscribers
    • Advertisers
  • About
    • About JSWC
    • Editorial Board
    • Permissions
    • Alerts
    • RSS Feeds
    • Contact Us

User menu

  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Online
    • Archive
    • Subject Collections
  • Info For
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Subscribers
    • Advertisers
  • About
    • About JSWC
    • Editorial Board
    • Permissions
    • Alerts
    • RSS Feeds
    • Contact Us
  • Follow SWCS on Twitter
  • Visit SWCS on Facebook
Research ArticleA Section

A conservationist's response to the subversive conservationist

Andrew Manale
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation September 2009, 64 (5) 137A-138A; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.64.5.137A
Andrew Manale
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • References
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

Excerpt

I understand clearly why a conservationist becomes subversive. I understand the frustrations that befall professionals and academics and other members of the conservation community who, despite devoting their lives to improving the land, protecting it, and championing its cause, bear witness to a general retreat from the principle of stewardship and individual responsibility for the health of the land. The past decade has been frustrating to all of us, including those who work within the agencies that have been entrusted with delivering conservation to land users and helping to protect our natural resources.

As the subversive conservationist states (Nowak 2009), conservation, as reflected in farm bill policy, has shifted from what a farmer or landowner should do to a focus on funding, cost sharing, or some kind of financial support/incentive. Debates at the national level surround the question of what new government program is needed to fill gaps to compensate those responsible for the land and reward them for actions taken for benefits not just to the landowner but society as well. Success in federal policy does seem to be measured by the size of funding authorizations and budgets.

I do not blame professional program managers for this trend; government…

Footnotes

  • Andrew Manale is a senior policy analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.

  • © 2009 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society

This article requires a subscription to view the full text. If you have a subscription you may use the login form below to view the article. Access to this article can also be purchased.

Log in using your username and password

Forgot your user name or password?

Purchase access

You may purchase access to this article. This will require you to create an account if you don't already have one.
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 64 (5)
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Vol. 64, Issue 5
September/October 2009
  • Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents (PDF)
  • About the Cover
  • Index by author
  • Front Matter (PDF)
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
A conservationist's response to the subversive conservationist
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
10 + 4 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
Citation Tools
A conservationist's response to the subversive conservationist
Andrew Manale
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Sep 2009, 64 (5) 137A-138A; DOI: 10.2489/jswc.64.5.137A

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Request Permissions
Share
A conservationist's response to the subversive conservationist
Andrew Manale
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Sep 2009, 64 (5) 137A-138A; DOI: 10.2489/jswc.64.5.137A
del.icio.us logo Digg logo Reddit logo Twitter logo Facebook logo Google logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
  • References
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • A certain wholeness: The dividends of conservation
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

A Section

  • Increasing agricultural conservation outreach through social science
  • Forest management and biochar for continued ecosystem services
  • How much grass will grow on your rangelands this year? Grass-Cast sheds light on the question!
Show more A Section

Readers' Forum

  • Commentary on “A possible trade-off between clean air and clean water” by Smith et al. (2017)
  • Response to “Commentary on ‘A possible trade-off between clean air and clean water’ by Smith et al. (2017)”
  • Commentary on “Effect of brush control on evapotranspiration in the North Concho River watershed using the eddy covariance technique” by Saleh et al. (2009)
Show more Readers' Forum

Similar Articles

Content

  • Current Issue
  • Early Online
  • Archive
  • Subject Collections

Info For

  • Authors
  • Reviewers
  • Subscribers
  • Advertisers

Customer Service

  • Subscriptions
  • Permissions and Reprints
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy

SWCS

  • Membership
  • Publications
  • Meetings and Events
  • Conservation Career Center

© 2022 Soil and Water Conservation Society