What we will accomplish will be to turn over management of biological invasions to the park's ecosystems. If we protect the borders and the surrounding landscape, we will help to slow the rate and frequency of invasions. The ecosystem, I submit, will be prove surprisingly effective at relegating potentially invasive species to minor status within any community they penetrate. All things considered ecosystems seem generally better than humans at managing invasive species. It is also worth remembering that Homo sapiens is the most invasive species.
Policies are among the principal barriers to human induced environmental change.
Disturbing the environmental policy structure is the equivalent of creating an edge, and major, often unpredicted changes can be expected at these disturbed boundaries.