“This is a chance to make things better.” — Hardware-store wisdom following a tornado touch-down near Ward, AR, February, 2001 Landscape-scale habitat restoration
It’s more important to do what needs doing, rather than just doing what’s easy. — Dr. Guy Baldassarre, undergraduate professor/mentor at Auburn, reacting to one
Nature abhors a vacuum. –Ancient proverb, variously attributed to Aristotle, Rabelais, Descartes or Spinoza I frequently assert the need for greater leadership in the
I have been advised many times to keep the NBCI complexity behind the curtain. Such advice typically follows a showing of my infamous “NBCI octopus
STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS Man’s got to know his limitations… –Clint Eastwood, Magnum Force, 1973 The eastern states’ wild bobwhites have been declining for
In November, I lamented a fundamental bobwhite conservation problem – most quail hunters just go away quietly, rather than stand up and work to restore
I used to enjoy those various thought-provoking generational lists that annually make the rounds on email circuits and the Internet, lists of things or concepts
“Deer hunters will march on the steps of the capitol to protest buck regulations; but quail hunters just go away.” –A frustrated New Jersey quail
“What are you prepared to do?” The dying Sean Connery, to Kevin Costner, in The Untouchables. The state of the bobwhite quail is … declining;
You can’t handle the truth! … Jack Nicholson to Tom Cruise, in the movie, “A Few Good Men.” Every person taking the time to
