Support for Island Press is provided by The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Geraldine R. Our growing list of titles reflects our commitment to bringing the best of an expanding body of literature to the environmental community throughout North America and the world. In 2005, Island Press celebrates its twenty-first anniversary as the leading provider of timely and practical books that take a multidisciplinary approach to critical environmental concerns. We provide solutions-oriented information to professionals, public officials, business and community leaders, and concerned citizens who are shaping responses to environmental problems. London All Island Press books are printed on recycled, acid-free paper.ДЄbout Island Press Island Press is the only nonprofit organization in the United States whose principal purpose is the publication of books on environmental issues and natural resource management.Natural Resource Conservation Service ISBN 1-59726-044-4 вЂњThis timely volume offers in one place the information, strategies, and tools that practitioners need in order to take the conservation of freshwater biodiversity to the next critical stage-doing it! With so much freshwater life at risk, this guide needs to be read, dog-eared, and widely used.вЂќДЄDVANCE PRAISE FOR A PractitionerвЂ™s Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity ConservationД¬over design by Mary McKeon Cover photo: Restored wetland in Iowa by Lynn Betts, U.S.D.A. Kristine Ciruna is coordinator of conservation programs for The Nature Conservancy of Canada at Victoria, British Columbia.ДЇreshwater Biodiversity Conservation A PRACTITIONERвЂ™S GUIDE TO Nicole Silk is Deputy Director, Sustainable Waters Program for The Nature Conservancy at Boulder, Colorado. IвЂ™m especially gratified to find pattern and process at all scales given significance equivalent to that given diversity.вЂќ -Sam Pearsall, science director of the Roanoke River Project, The Nature Conservancy, North Carolina The lists of institutions, policies, and publications are, by themselves, worth the price of admission. The whole volume should serve very well as an overview text for advanced undergraduates and as an essential reference for workers in the field (or the swamp). The first chapter should be read by everyone who is in a position to affect public policy on the use and conservation of natural resources itвЂ™s a five-page eye-opener. This is a hugely important topic for the citizens of the world-the clock is ticking on our ability to protect adequately the range of services freshwater ecosystems provide.вЂќ -Ann Mills, executive vice president, American Rivers вЂњNicole Silk, Kristine Ciruna, and their colleagues have assembled a remarkable practitionerвЂ™s guide for freshwater ecosystem management.

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