“That many biologists were bound to get themselves into trouble sooner or later. If you've ever been to an Ichs and Herps meeting, you know it was going to be the herpetologists who got there first.” — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“Things got so bad that Georgia lawmakers introduced legislation to move the state border north- to seize land that had been in Tennessee since… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to the chapters… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“When one photographer edged too close to the wolves, tirelessly dogging McIntyre for the best place to perch his bazooka-size lens I could see… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“Eating dinner with conservation biologists was like walking through a minefield of ethical decisions: grasslands have been overgrazed by steer raised for beef, and… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“... to undertake a gargantuan task: calculate the value of all the services provided by all the ecosystems, from the forest to the floodplains… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“Hey, it could be worse," Hammond said of their efforts to protect the woodpecker. "It could be a butterfly." Butterflies were easy, I said.… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“That many biologists were bound to get themselves into trouble sooner or later. If you've ever been to an Ichs and Herps meeting, you… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“But having biologists outside the Beltway remained a problem for the adminisration. "They found they couldn't control us," Williams said... "That sort of thing… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“... the taxonomic division of animals in a lost Chinese encyclopedia... (a) those that belong to the emperor; (b) embalmed ones; (c) those that… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
![“It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to the chapters of history we would rather not revisit: the Slave Trade, the Indian Removal Policy, the subjection of women, child labor, segregation. The…” quote by Joe Roman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd3/joe-roman-40542_american_it-may-be-underfunded-and-at-times-misma_1306385.jpg)
