@article {JRN54685,
	title = {Using ecological site information  to improve landscape management  for ecosystem services},
	journal = {Rangelands},
	volume = {38:318-321},
	year = {2016},
	month = {12/2016},
	abstract = {<p>People and their societies, have a complicated relationship with land. The unofficial patron saint of ecologists, Aldo Leopold, in {\textquotedblleft}The Sand County Almanac,{\textquotedblright} traced the modern human relationship with land from a purely economic to an ecologically based approach, culminating in his {\textquotedblleft} Land Ethic.{\textquotedblright} \&nbsp;In this ground-breaking and influential essay, Leopold proposed that {\textquotedblleft}a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.{\textquotedblright} \&nbsp;The main idea embodied in this essay was that good land management was an individual and community responsibility that transcended pure economics. \&nbsp;While Leopold focused primarily on the cooperative nature of the human relationship to land, a secondary, but just as important, part of the essay was that {\textquotedblleft}The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants and animals, or collectively, the land."</p>
},
	doi = {10.1016/j.rala.2016.10.011},
	url = {files/bibliography/16-035.pdf},
	author = {Joel R. Brown and Kris Havstad}
}
