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Prairie emergence: Ecological restoration through  self-organization Biosemiotics in America Symposium Purdue University Richard Currie Smith, Ph.D. September 30, 2006
Issue: Ecological Restoration  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Presentation Overview ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Minnesota River Basin
North American Prairie
Prairie Lake Region Anfinson, S.  1997
Tall  Grass Prairie Big Bluestem With Blooming Blazing Star
Big  Stone Wildlife Refuge
Nature Impels Us Not to Admire a Small River ‘that Ministers to our Necessities’ But the Nile, the Ister [Danube] and the Rhine.” Loginus(18 th  Century  Landscape Painter)
Industrial Agriculture Mono-Crop  Pesticides Fungicides Herbicides Artificial-Fertilizers Genetic- Engineering Drainage : Surface and Subsurface
Potentially on of the most beautiful prairie rivers in the nation, the Minnesota functions as a drainage ditch for farmers and a toilet for many rural Minnesotans. Its cleanup poses daunting challenges and costs.
Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Zone
By 2001 improvement in MRB  water quality had occurred   (MPCA, 2000) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Minnesota River Project ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Gregory Bateson   (1904-1980) Ecological Anthropologist & Communication Theorist    Major Works : “Steps to an Ecology    of Mind”   (1972 [2000]) “ Mind and Nature”   (1979 [2002])
Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems  Approach to Ecological Restoration ,[object Object],[object Object]
Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems  Approach to Ecological Restoration ,[object Object],[object Object]
Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems  Approach to Ecological Restoration ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems  Approach to Ecological Restoration Dynamic Equilibrium through Self-Organization:   “ Ecosystems such as a seashore or a redwood forest are undoubtedly self-corrective. If in a given year the population of some species is unusually increased or reduced, within a few years that population will return to its usual level… [or] when the growing seedling bends toward light, it is influenced by difference in illumination and grows more rapidly on the darker side, thus bending and catching more light- a substitute for locomotion.    Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems  Approach to Ecological Restoration ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems  Approach to Ecological Restoration ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems  Approach to Ecological Restoration ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Contemporary Environment Dilemma ,[object Object],[object Object]
Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems  Approach to Ecological Restoration ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Modern Western Society’s Fundamental Epistemological Error ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Bateson’s "Separation From Nature” Cluster of Ideas   ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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MN River Basin Restoration (Part I): Richard Currie Smith

  • 1. Prairie emergence: Ecological restoration through self-organization Biosemiotics in America Symposium Purdue University Richard Currie Smith, Ph.D. September 30, 2006
  • 2.
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  • 6. Prairie Lake Region Anfinson, S. 1997
  • 7. Tall Grass Prairie Big Bluestem With Blooming Blazing Star
  • 8. Big Stone Wildlife Refuge
  • 9. Nature Impels Us Not to Admire a Small River ‘that Ministers to our Necessities’ But the Nile, the Ister [Danube] and the Rhine.” Loginus(18 th Century Landscape Painter)
  • 10. Industrial Agriculture Mono-Crop Pesticides Fungicides Herbicides Artificial-Fertilizers Genetic- Engineering Drainage : Surface and Subsurface
  • 11. Potentially on of the most beautiful prairie rivers in the nation, the Minnesota functions as a drainage ditch for farmers and a toilet for many rural Minnesotans. Its cleanup poses daunting challenges and costs.
  • 12. Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Zone
  • 13.
  • 14.
  • 15. Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) Ecological Anthropologist & Communication Theorist Major Works : “Steps to an Ecology of Mind” (1972 [2000]) “ Mind and Nature” (1979 [2002])
  • 16.
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  • 19. Gregory Bateson’s Living Systems Approach to Ecological Restoration Dynamic Equilibrium through Self-Organization: “ Ecosystems such as a seashore or a redwood forest are undoubtedly self-corrective. If in a given year the population of some species is unusually increased or reduced, within a few years that population will return to its usual level… [or] when the growing seedling bends toward light, it is influenced by difference in illumination and grows more rapidly on the darker side, thus bending and catching more light- a substitute for locomotion. Gregory Bateson
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