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Case For Celestial Humans (Part 3) In this post I would like to speculate on the possibility that the problems of earth bound humanity that have been so aptly pointed out in celestial human contact cases may be symptomatic of a far greater and widespread problem amongst celestial humanity in general. I have a background in land and wildlife management having grown up in a family of ecologists. I would like to make some comparisons that may be applicable to management problems associated with celestial human’s interactions with earth humanity. Before human beings were on the earth, nature managed and shaped the natural landscapes through the forces of nature. Wind, rain, and fire sculptured landscapes into a diversity of ecosystems and habitats that provided for a diversity of plant and animal species. Plants and animal species adapted and they themselves worked to alter their environments to better suit themselves. Certain species of pine such as longleaf pine not only adapted to fire by developing a thick fire resistant bark but they increased the resin content of their needles so as to use periodic natural wildfires to their advantage and burn out the competition near the tree and in the forest as a whole. When man came onto the scene he used fire to manage the land just as any other animal or plant attempts to manage it's environment. No self respecting hunter- gather wants to slug through bramble infested with ticks and chiggers to hunt and gather food, so man used fire even more frequently than nature alone to clear out the underbrush in the forest and fields so as to create open park like forested savannas and prairies. This practice was so complete and widespread that animal and plant species have adapted to man's activities as they would to any other of nature's forces and any attempt to revert back to ecosystems that existed before man would be catastrophic to the plant and animal species on earth today. So we can see that ecosystem management and even management for a single species of animal or plant involves a very complicated understanding of the environment and all the various relationships that exist between the plant and animal species in that environment. If this were not enough, the actual practice of land management is complex in itself. Managing for a variety of species and habitants requires a lot of experience. A long term management plan must be developed through experimentation on a small scale where failures are limited and success can be ramped up to manage on a large scale. Additionally the plan has to be implemented and applied in a consistent manner over a long period of time. This is easier said than done because the land manager may become distracted by other things, fail to burn on time, or not burn at all one year and so consequences develop that take even more work and expense to correct. The manager can even go into denial and make excuses as to why he or she did not burn that year, even while perfectly good conditions existed but were not taken advantage of because the land manager was other wise occupied. Another almost impossible problem is that when a group of people with a diversity of interests and little experience are involved together in management, management policy and implantation shifts from year to year depending on whose idea of the proper management is being applied at 52