Introduction

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Decision making in natural resource management: a structured, adaptive approach by M.J. Conroy and J.T. Peterson.   Readers are encouraged to work through the background material and boxed examples to gain familiarity with the numerical methods and software. As readers become familiar with these concepts and methods they are encouraged to adapt these examples to individual problems.  Please contact us if you see mistakes in the code, or need assistance in running or modifying these examples. See online computing resources for a list of commonly used software.