Landscape-Scale Conservation as per TNC

Regarding the plight of the Upper Peninsula in Michigan, we have found a few things that I hope will get the attention of all of you. We need your help to research and get the word out. Please read the following:

I'm still researching TNC's U.S. "500 functional conservation landscapes and 2000 functional conservation areas" that I found online this this week. Believe U.P. of Michigan is one of the 500, as they are setting the stage for the whole U.P. to become a huge functional "working forest" landscape per their U.P. Conservation Report.

"Working" doesn't mean hunting, fishing, trapping, logging, or much of anything, as humans put stress on eco-systems..or so they claim. It means that little eco-systems in the landscape "work" in unison so the whole thing becomes "functional".

Humans are referred to as "situations" in the material I've read so far, but I've yet to learn how we're to be handled if we don't go along with scheme. I've also read on one site that all "feral ungulates" (deer, elk, etc.) are to be eliminated in 90% of the"mesics" in these functional landscapes, but unable to determine if one, some, or all. Mesics are wet to semi-wet areas. Had trouble accessing site where all that was written, but it has to do with Efroymson Workshops and TNC's conservation plan for the U.P. was taken to one of these workshops to plan out what they call a 5-S program. Efroymson is Dan, and is deceased. There is an Efroymson Fellowship Program, and it has pumped out over 180 landscape project teams. TNC is partnered with state and federal govn't agencies, as well as the U.N.'s International Union for the Conservation of Nature. They will also be protecting species on the IUCN's "red alert" list...what ever that entails... On one site was written "Think Globally, Act Locally"...

http://conserveonline.org/2003/09/l/en/Landscape_Practicitioners_Handbook_July03_--_NEW.pdf