“Eating dinner with conservation biologists was like walking through a minefield of ethical decisions: grasslands have been overgrazed by steer raised for beef, and all cattle emit greenhouse gases though enteric fermentation; the poop from industrially raised chickens poisons the… — 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 of history we would rather not revisit: the Slave Trade, the Indian Removal Policy, the subjection of women, child labor, segregation. The Endangered Species Act is a zero-tolerance law: no new extinctions. It keeps eyes on… — Joe Roman Copy Share
“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
