David J. Parsons

TL;DR: Ecosystem management is management driven by explicit goals, executed by policies, protocols, and practices, and made adaptable by monitoring and research based on our best understanding of the ecological interactions and processes necessary to sustain ecosystem composition, structure, and function as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The major challenge to stewardship of protected areas is to decide where, when, and how to intervene in physical and biological processes, to conserve what we value in these places as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The long-term preservation of national park ecosystems requires scientific knowledge about populations, communities, and the ecological processes upon which fragile ecosystems depend as discussed by the authors, and the National Park Service has a well-documented history of indifference, if not hostility, to the support of basic research.

TL;DR: The Missoula International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (MDSN) Conference as discussed by the authors was held at the University of Montana from May 23 through 27, 1999, with a focus on computer vision.