Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This article and accompanying poster produced by the United States Department of the Interior-Bureau of Land Management, help students to learn about the difficult choices made by ecosystem managers. The activities presented are designed to help students understand how different interest groups are often competing for the same resources, either to use them or to protect them, and how ecosystem managers need to make tradeoffs between the two.
Students also learn about ecosystem scale, connections, cycles and change, diversity, and balance.
The poster includes a lesson with procedure, background and materials needed to have the students perform a town meeting where they take on roles of members of the community, such as ranchers, sportsmen, chamber of commerce members, and others. ENC does NOT distribute this resource. One copy free to educators.