For sagebrush and science geeks, USGS is hosting a series of webinars on sagebrush issues starting at the end of January
1/30 – Greater sage-grouse
2/6 – Invasive species, restoration effectiveness, and monitoring
2/20 – Monitoring, pinyon-juniper, and fuels management
2/27 – Fire, fuels management, invasive species
3/6 – Climate, carbon, and more
Sign up to get the webinar links here.
More details on each webinar’s presentations can be found here.
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Regardless of details, we know that 1) humans are causing the Sixth Great Extinction; 2) 90% of megafauna, both at sea and on land, have been destroyed by humans; and 3) 90% of native ecosystems have been destroyed by humans. While we also have to fight for individual species, we need more to work to change the big picture here, starting with the horrible human attitudes toward the natural world and the life there. If we don’t do that, humans will continue to kill and destroy the native life on Earth, and we’ll be forever bogged down with these Whack-A-Mole individual battles.
Jonathan Ratner has been in the trenches of public lands conservation for nearly 25 years. He started out doing forest carnivore work for the Forest Service, BLM, and the Inter-agency Grizzly Bear Study Team, with some Wilderness Rangering on the Pinedale Ranger District. That work lead him directly to deal with the gross corruption within the federal agencies' range program.
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