MODULE 1: Ecosystems

THIS WEEK

1. RR feedback
2. Today: Aldo Leopold's land ethic, reports
3. Wednesday: Endangered species, reports, a little reviewing for quiz
4. Friday: quiz and Kyle White (kinship)

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RR feedback

• review the two checklists at the top of every assignment--requirements, mechanics
• Reading philosophy (tab above)

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What is the land ethic?

1. Reading from The Sand County Almanac 
2. Aldo Leopold website
3. workbook 

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Native vs. invasive species

• invasive species reports
• http://eattheinvaders.org/

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Other views: should we kill barred owls to save spotted owls?

1. Peter Singer -- Utilitarianism
2. Richard Taylor 

The competing claims of owls

1. Barred owls--want to flourish, need more habitat
2. Spotted owls -- want to flourish, hanging onto current habitat

Wild life managers as adjudicators--does any principle apply?

1. self-defense 
2. proportionality 
3. distributive justice 
4. minimum wrong
5. restitution