title: Righting the resource management ship: a response to Grose.
abstract: Absolute certainty is a luxurious state that is seldom attained by competent decision makers. Natural resource managers are accountable to the public for high-stakes actions that have incompletely understood consequences, so there is little tolerance for error. I argue that the traditional tools of science and decision theory are both necessary and sufficient, despite recent 'backwards thinking' on this topic.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 4034 Fairview Industrial Drive SE, Salem, OR 97302-1142, USA. Electronic address: matthew.r.falcy@state.or.us.
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Falcy
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods*
keywords: adaptive management; decision; noise