Swimming against the Tide, A Maniac’s perspective in 4 Acts1 Act: Lessons learned early: Nepal and Africa 1973, the embodiment of Community –based conservation, and How to move the bureaucracy: budgets, personnel and getting them to move to YES. Examples :Peregrine, Whoopers Eagles, CA condor, Grizzly
2 Act: Applying entrepreneurship to solving environmental problems:
*Creating National Wildlife Forensic Lab (K/. Goddard, T. Grosz)
* Creating NFWF
* Implementing NAWCA
*creating Partners for Wildlife program for USFWS
* NFWF initiatives: Partners IN Flight, Invasive Species, Pollinators, Mainstem Dam removals (Edwards Presumpscot in Maine, Neuse in NC), Private Lands
3 Act: Why Private Lands: Roosevelt/Pinchot to today, 70% USA private, 80% endangered species habitat private. Private forests, rancher Commercial fishermen more adept than federal agencies at restorative management. Greatest success of enviro movement, never acknowledged is change of Ethos. We spout ecology from Eugene Odum to today, but the world is driven by mechanics of human ecology, not nature
4 Act Stories to tell not covered. A look under the covers
