Ecologist #rewildling the Northern Great Plains w/ @AmericanPrairie | PhD from @USU_Ecology | past @NatGeo Fellow | notifications off; not here often.
Montana, USA
Joined July 2013
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One more time for the people in the back: 🗣️ GRIZZLIES BELONG ON THE PRAIRIE!
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“Why is it so hard for an Indigenous truth to become an American fact?”
Third place for Best Editorial by HCN’s Associate Editor and the fearless leader of our Indigenous Affairs Desk @NickA_Martin
hcn.org/issues/53.11/indigen…
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No one should have to grow up in a world with that few gopher tortoises
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Excellent context and coverage of the insanely complicated politics of managing public elk on private lands in Montana by @BrettBFrench. More of this please!
billingsgazette.com/news/sta…
Had a wonderful time yesterday podcasting about #rewilding the Great Plains and @AmericanPrairie with @Rewilding & @SouthernPlains. rewilding.org/episode-86-rew…
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“…a hard truth: that America’s “best idea” rested on remorseless campaigns of Native land dispossession.”
“…make known Indigenous resistance… and the survival and persistence of tribal nations who have long been stewards of lands across the Northwest.” smithsonianmag.com/history/h…
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🧵 breaks down the nefarious logic behind the MT wolf “threshold” of 450.
17/The relevant result from Adams et al. (2008), copied below, shows how wolf population growth rate decreases as annual human-caused mortality increases, and turns negative (i.e., decreasing wolf population size) when human-caused mortality exceeds approximately 0.29.
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🚨Two state Wildlife Biologist jobs open in eastern Montana!
Beautiful country with phenomenal wildlife potential. Could be a great career move. Doesn’t seem like there’s been many qualified applicants either… mtstatejobs.taleo.net/career…
“…the changes being proposed represent a shift in the Montana ethic of protecting and managing wildlife as a public resource to managing elk as a commodity.” dailymontanan.com/2022/02/03…
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Can’t wait to start traveling again and catch that red eye to some new exciting place, have the taxi drop me off in front of some pre-war hotel in the rain, walk in, set down my bag, and strike-up a conversation with the hotel… robot.
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🚨Tech Job🚨
I'm biased (this is very similar to my graduate field work), but if you are interested in applied conservation - particularly on Western working lands - you should consider this!
(DMs are open to aspiring conservation professionals w/ Qs)
wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/field…
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What is it with insurrectionists and wildlife areas? First sagebrush “rebels,” now butterfly “patriots.”
URGENT NOTICE! National Butterfly Center CLOSED Jan 28-30 due to credible threats. Please read more & SHARE here: mailchi.mp/nationalbutterfly…
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Gotta say, I would not have thought to examine the game of chess for examples of class consciousness.
Might get another PhD, brb
Open PhD position in our cognitive zoology group!
Interested in the evolution of cognition and working with animals? Research possible on many topics and species, such as apes, ravens, alligators, emus, rheas, tinamous, and more!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/job…
Further attempts to de-wild The Last Best Place. Thank god for the ESA; hopefully FWS sees right through this. missoulian.com/news/local/gi…
Okay, sure. That’s depressing. But why do you have to bring grizzly bears into this? What did they do? thehill.com/changing-america…
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