Edited by Richard L. Knight & Peter B. Landres

Taken from Back Cover:
"Every piece of land, no matter how remote or untrammeled, has a boundary. While sometimes boundary lines follow topographic or biological features, more often they follow the straight lines of political dictate and compromise. Administrative boundaries nearly always fragment a landscape, resulting in loss of species that must disperse or migrate across borders, increased likelihood of threats such as alien species or pollutants, and disruption of natural processes such as fire.

"Stewardship Across Boundaries addresses the complex biological and socio-economic impacts of both public and private land boundaries in the United States. It demonstrates how legal, social, and ecological conditions interact in causing boundary impacts and why those factors must be integrated to improve land management. Contributors include natural resource managers, historians, environmentalists, political scientists, and legal scholars."

Contents:

• Part I: Understanding Administrative Boundaries and Their Effects
  • Bounded People, Bounded Land -Eric T. Freyfogle
  • Ecological Effects of Administrative Boundaries -Peter B. Landres, Richard L. Knight, Steward T.A. Pickett, and M.L. Cadenasso
  • Social Dimensions of Boundaries: Balancing Cooperation and Self-Interest -Mark W. Brunson
  • Laws and Institutions in Cross-Boundary Stewardship -Errol E. Meidinger
• Types of Administrative Boundaries
  • Boundary Effects on Wilderness and Other Natural Areas -Peter B. Landres, Susan Marsh, Linda Merigliano, Dan Ritter, and Andy Norman
  • Outdoor Recreation and Boundaries: Opportunities and Challenges -Clinton K. Miller and Mark D. Gershman
  • Boundaries or Barriers: New Horizons for Conservation and Private Forests -William A. Wall
  • Boundaries Between Public and Private Lands: Defining Obstacles, Finding Solutions -Richard L. Knight and Tim W. Clark
• Case Studies
  • Big Cypress National Preserve: The Great Compromise -Fred J. Fagergren
  • Managing Grazing and Recreation Across Boundaries in the Big Cimarron Watershed -John E. Mitchell and George Wallace
  • Overcoming Boundaries: The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem -Dennis A. Glick and Tim W. Clark
  • Partnerships Across Park Boundaries: The Rincon Institute and Saguaro National Park -Luther Propst, William F. Paleck, and Liz Rosan
  • Wilderness and Working Landscapes: The Adirondack Park as a Model Bioregion -Thomas Pasquarello
• Building Bridges Across Boundaries
  • Cooperation: A Strategy for Achieving Stewardship Across Boundaries -Steven L. Yaffe
  • The Continent Indissoluble -Curt Meine
  • Integration: A Beginning for Landscape-Scale Stewardship -Peter B. Landres
• About the Contributors