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BioScience February Cover

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Climate change and other global anthropogenic stressors increasingly trigger ecological transformations that are irreversible at human time scales. The Meadow Fire, shown here, erupted in the Little Yosemite Valley area of Yosemite National Park, 7 September 2014, growing to over 2500 acres in one day. Damage from such fires may take considerable time before recovery. How actively should managers respond and with what desired outcomes in mind? A special section in this issue examines such modern natural resource stewardship challenges and describes how the resist-accept-direct (RAD) framework can help managers take strategic, forward-looking action.

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Photograph: Peter B. James (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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