Grouse & Conservation Funding with Jen Syrowitz

It seems like a no-brainer: Let's conserve all wildlife, right? Jen Syrowitz of Washington state joins Artemis to talk about the importance of funding, which is possibly one of the least sexy parts of conservation. We also talk about upland bird hunting (dog, or no dog?), grouse, prairie chickens, and partridge. 6:00 Saving your seasonal bounty in the freezer... then realizing harvest time is almost upon us. Time to use those huckleberries/grouse/[insert food here] 7:30 Sand County Almanac  8:00 Graduate school in Manitoba to bird hunting to a conservation career 9:00 Conservation Northwest = the NWF affiliate in Washington state 11:00 Prairie chickens 15:00 Upland bird hunting: Dogs vs no dogs 19:00 First bird: a Hungarian partridge flushing overhead 21:00 Funding for wildlife management... but first, let’s go back to early environmental ed 26:00 How can we give people the right ecological literacy to understand (and participate in) wildlife management decisions? 31:00 We invest in what we know and love 32:00 Missouri conservation tax - a miniscule sales tax add-on that earns big 35:00 Recovering America's Wildlife Act  - proposed legislation to fund conservation work to revive wildlife populations on the brink of ESA listing 41:00 Funding = the most unsexy conservation topic... but also vital  43:00 Northern gardening woes 45:00 Bear cub on the trail! Plus, channeling Tina Turner when you need her 49:00 Grassroots conservation + changing gender dynamics of land ownership 52:00 Missing a shot 53:00 "The honorable harvest" + Artemis book club: "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices