Great books, great thinkers, great fish and wildlife agencies

摘要

I have worked in the field of wildlife biology, at a government institution, for nearly 20 years. Even so, after learning that my abstract had been accepted, the reality of "who am I to offer comments on this session theme?" set in. Yet, upon furtherreflection, I concluded that a career at midpoint can and does offer an opportunity to share some thoughts and ideas that I trust will prove to be provocative, insightful and hopefully beneficial. These comments are the result of a lot of reading, personal experience and observation, and some attempt at systematic, coherent, world-view based thinking. I do not, however, pretend to be an authority on any of the subject areas that I may intrude into today--I am certainly not, by strict definition, a philosopher, educator or historian.