Problem Solving Table 2:

Every ecological problem has three dimensions: Physical, Biological, & Social

The Grand Coulee Dam, Washington State.

Are large dams on rivers and example of technological catalysts in that they spur-on the economic growth of a region?

Columbia River watershed is a drainage basin that extends into Canada and five states in the Pacific Northwest.
 

• Physical, basin for drainage aerial sizes, elevations, climate.
• Biological, biogeographical provinces habitat, species, genetic diversity.
• Social, urban, rural and wild population, women's status.

How has the Columbia River come to symbolize the conflict between economics and ecology?

 
What are the economic benefits derived from the river and the watershed?

Describe the ecological value and biological wealth of the Columbia River basin and the ecosystem services derived from these natural assets of the watershed:
 

What is the reason for needing to discover a more sustainable use of the Columbia River?

 

Consider several examples of each from the readings with respect to the Columbia River and the mountain ranges that give rise to this vast tributary system:

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Columbia River watershed, "large ecosystems:" multi-jurisdictional, international.

	Canada
	Grand Coulee Dam (11) USA
	Bonneville Dam (1)
	Snake river watershed (Idaho)
The Columbia River Basin is an international watershed in that the Canadian and United States border crosses the area just south of the Okanagon Valley and River in British Columbia. The almost twenty dams on this river interfere with the passage of fish from the ocean and estuary into the tributaries upriver where they must return to spawn another generation of fish.

Kai Lee's organizational schema, his approach to the basin's ecological problems.

1 learning from the past
2 correcting errors
3 understanding and applying adaptive management
4 participating in bounded conflict
5 devising action plans and assessing the expected outcomes.

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Contrasting Kai Lee's with Hardin's language.
 

Adaptableness & Urban Planning Myths

What does it mean to be adaptive in a biologically and ecologically sensitive way?

Table for assessing ways to solve ecological problems:

example: anadromous fishes.

Salmon require cold clear water in rock bedded streams flowing across numerous acres of forested land for sufficient eggs to grow into fry and from fry into fingerlings or else they will go extinct in their range.

They stay close to home streams as young and live in and along the river and tidal estuary habitat as they mature. Salmon spend their adult lives at sea returning to home rivers to spawn from spring to late summer and early fall.
 

Vehicle of ecological services

habitat human requirements end uses
 

weal, old English from the Germanic root word for wealth; wald, or forest, or wooded landscape.
See The Weald in southern England.
 

• Keep everything on site.
• Primacy of making all places distinctive.
• Use less energy, less water and reuse materials.
• Incorporate ecological accounting over the life-cycle of costs and benefits.
• Retain obvious and hidden connections to surrounding region or regions.