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A new free book describes Rural System. Just click on the title...
Rural System? Just Dreaming … A For-Profit Conglomerate for Meaningful Jobs Healthful Communities and Improved Natural Resource Management © |
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Faunal Force blog |
Also click on Bob's other related blog
| The Survivalists |
Bob also writes High Five, a column for business blog Handshake 2.0.
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Rural System presents an alternative paradigm in rural land management, one which holds that a total system, if of proper size and managed very well, can be sustained and made profitable into perpetuity. Its working premise is that only a profit motive (or self-sustaining financial motive) for a complex, modern, private rural natural-resource-related enterprise can assure such superior management for people and their environment.
This site is diverse and has over 1000 files. I hope that you will be pleased with some of the content (link to it in the box to the right).
The paradigm,synonymous with the proposed enterprise name, is beginning to take form to improve the way that related natural resources, particularly forests, wildlife, the fishery, and pastures and rangelands are managed, protected, in some cases restored, developed, and used now and for the future. It is both site-specific (the forest stand or ownership) and regional. The draft Business Plan for that conglomerate is now available.
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What's behind Rural System?
We have been told that understanding Rural System and the major concepts behind it is difficult. We know that they are difficult to explain. We have a one-page capsule, but let's start at the end, showing what might be the results of developing a very successful system. The products and services that will be offered to citizens, land owners, and visitors are described in the electronic general Country Store.
Please link to it and explore the potentials, examples, and your opportunities.
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| A new Rural System enterprise... NatureSeen |
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Intensive use of computers to improve land use decisions does not mean that there is no one on the other end of this electronic message. Just write to me at any time.
Peculiar Manor
A CD of natural resource essays Peculiar Manor, by Bob Giles is now available. The CD is compatible with standard E-book Readers. It is not compatible with the non-standard Microsoft Reader. To order a copy, send a check for $19.95 to
Shepherd Media Engineering
111 Pheasant Lane
Summerville, South Carolina 20485
For this initial offer, the price includes postage and handling fees. South Carolina residents should include 3% Sales Tax.
A distance-learning course, Modern Wild Faunal Resource System Management, much material supplied by Giles, is available through the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech, Northern Virginia Graduate Center,
Contact: David L. Trauger, Ph.D.,
Director of Natural Resources Programs,
Northern Virginia Center,
7054 Haycock Road,
Falls Church, Virginia 22043-2311,
Phone: 703-538-8365,
Email: dtrauger@vt.edu
(December, 2007) Perspectives on Reclaiming Abandoned Appalachian Surface Coal Mines a recovered manuscript by Giles and McGinnes from 1981… Not much has changed.
Parts of the enterprise exist only as design documents. I hope that you will participate in developing the total system. It is likely to be good work for the right reasons with success that will be measured, in part, by financial gains over the longrun within the greater enterprise.
If you have specific interest in any one or more of the 70 sketched enterprises, I shall be glad to correspond about that interest. As an example, if you were a wood carver, we ought to discuss your role or our work together in developing The Sculptors.
I also hope that you will be a frequent user of these resources and that we may correspond by email for their improvement. I welcome your feedback to the materials here. Your input helps me continually improve and refine my efforts and make the web site and documents useful to others.
Please tell others about the web site and the Faunal Force blog.
Further details about the web site may be found under "quick access" below.
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Lost? Sorry. This is a large, diverse web site. I work interactively with
Curious? Great.
The following are major elements of the site waiting for your use. Detailed Contents are also provided in an alphabetical list.
Major Elements of the Site
Contact: David L. Trauger, Ph.D., Director of Natural Resources Programs, Northern Virginia Center, 7054 Haycock Road, Falls Church, Virginia 22043-2311, Phone: 703-538-8365, Email: dtrauger@vt.edu
This Web site is maintained by R. H.
Giles, Jr. Email him at [rhgiles at [vt dot edu] ] >
Last revision May, 2009