Podcast appearances and mentions of sage grouse initiative

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While serving as the banquet speaker at the DSC Wyoming Chapter banquet, Larry had the opportunity to sit down and visit with Brandon Mason and Todd Helms with Eastman Outdoors to discuss one of their latest video and wildlife conservation projects, “The Sage Grouse Initiative”. Sage grouse are iconic western game bird species. As the fate of the sage grouse goes so goes the West's habitat and other iconic Western species including pronghorn antelope and mule deer. Visiting with Larry, Brandon and Todd discuss their current project to raise and bring public awareness about what is happening throughout the western States and their wildlife habitat. They too discuss past outdoor experiences and making outdoor memories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever's Chief Development Officer David Bue to celebrate the successful conclusion of the Call of the Uplands campaign coinciding with the retirement of longtime PF & QF President & CEO Howard Vincent. Episode Highlights: • Vincent revisits the important moments of his four decades with Pheasants Forever; including the story of Quail Forever's creation and the personal promise behind the Sage Grouse Initiative. • Bue and Vincent talk about the campaign's 11 million acres of habitat improvements and the 2 million acres of access created, as well as how Call of the Uplands has changed the trajectory of the organization's future. • Vincent also explains the impetus for the new fighting roosters tattoo on his right arm and unveils plans for a covey of flushing quail on his left arm as an illustration of his lifelong commitment to upland habitat. Learn more about the Call of the Uplands accomplishments by visiting our campaign summary. https://pheasantsforever.org/celebrate

Michael Brown is the man at Pheasants Forever when it comes to Sage Grouse and the Habitat they need to survive. Nolan and Tim learned an awful lot about how everything is tied to habitat. Cattle, sage grouse, elk, song birds, and humans. Yes even humans benefit from good farming/conservation practices. More food on the table and more money in the pockets of ranchers and farmers. We hope you learn as much in this podcast as we did.

What a great episode to learn more about Sage Grouse! We talk with Michael Brown about the Sage Grouse Initiative. Michael talks about what his duties are with Pheasants Forever and Sage Grouse Initiative, how they put trackers on Sage Grouse (which is crazy), how they are working with land owners to bring more acres of habitat for this bird and much more! Check out the following podcast sponsors/supporters: Hunt REDI - https://huntredi.com Total Axxess Truck Bed Systems - https://truckbedsystems.com - Use Code Ringnecks to save $100 Tetra Hearing - Use code "FlushEm2021" to save 10% - https://tetrahearing.com/FlushEm Gun Dog Outdoors - gundogoutdoors.com use code "Ringnecks" to save 10% Dakota283 - dakota283.com use code "RNR10" to save 10% Cornerstone Gundog Academy - Save $50 - https://www.cornerstonegundogacademy.com/a/39346/oQ3aXZZf --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ringnecks-and-retrievers0/support

Jeremy Maestas joins the podcast to talk the sage brush sea, partnering with private landowners to conserve rangelands, sage grouse, and the critters that rely on the western range - "good for the bird, good for the herd". We also speak about the Sage Grouse Initiative's collaboration with Hunt to Eat dubbed "Western Roots" highlighting the importance of native plants in the West. Hunt to Eat/Sage Grouse Initiative Collaboration  https://hunttoeat.com/products/western-roots NRCS Sage Grouse Initiative: https://www.sagegrouseinitiative.com/ SGI’s Conserve our Western Roots: https://www.sagegrouseinitiative.com/roots/ NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/programs/initiatives/?cid=stelprdb1046975   Show notes:    4:30 – intro to “Rangelands” 7:39 – Jeremy’s love of mule deer 8:26 – Jeremy’s best sage country memories 10:17 - what is the Sage Grouse Initiative or SGI 13:45 – what are sage ands, rangelands and why are they so important 15:25 – the amazingness of sage grouse and sage grouse life 19:30 - what does “good for the bird, good for the herd” mean and the connection between wildlife health in the sagelands ecosystem 25:30 – the benefits of native plants over introduced and noxious species 28:19 – the nastiness of cheat grass 32:23 – soil is an under sung hero 34:02 – having cheatgrass on the land doubles the risk of wildfire 37:26 – restoration on the range 43:17 – How can average Joe or Jane hunter be part of the solution

Hannah Nikonow shares her story of being an adult onset hunter, why she prefers bird dogs with beards, her passion of wild game cooking, and the game that keeps her busy in the Fall. Hannah is able to mix her work with pleasure as she discusses her favorite bird, Sage Grouse and the sagebrush habitat it relies on.  6:45 Backcountry Hunters and Anglers - BHA Virtual Seminar 12:40 Hannah Saves the Day! 14:10 Chef extraordinaire 15:35 Hunt life 19:20 Choosing a pointing breed 20:00 Wirehaired Pointing Griffon 21:10 Pudelpointer 35:35 Training and testing with NAVHDA 27:40 Upland hunting 28:05 All things sagebrush 34:05 Cheat grass sucks 39:00 Hunting Sage Grouse 44:10 Sage Grouse Initiative 45:50 Helping with Sage Grouse habitat 48:50 Partners in the Sage 51:30 Girl's Grouse Camp 57:50 Big Game Hunting 59:30 Favorite big game recipes 1:01:10 Deer tongue – Hannah makes me turn green 1:04:10 Snipe eating 1:06:45 Hannah's season plans 1:08:00 Balancing upland and big game 1:10:00 Hunting with kids 1:11:00 Gear talk 1:26:00 What's in your vest 1:29:10 Favorite Sage Grouse Recipe 1:31:50 Advice for first time hunters --------------------------------------------------------- Support this podcast on Patreon Thank you to our Sponsors: Dakota283 Kennels (use promo code birddogbabe for 10% discount)  Xcel Shooting Sports – free gun slip ($90 value) with purchase of select shotguns Connect with Courtney Follow Bird Dog Babe: Instagram Facebook YouTube Connect with Hannah

In this episode recorded prior to COVID-19, host Bob St. Pierre visited with Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever President and CEO, Howard Vincent. The two discuss how Howard moved from volunteer accountant to the organization’s director of finance, and eventually became the second CEO of Pheasants Forever. During the episode, the pair discuss the many “touchpoints” throughout Howard’s career and his joy of leading a team of people passionate about the organization’s wildlife habitat mission. Episode Highlights Include: · Bob and Howard start talking about their baseball backgrounds. From there, baseball symbolism, metaphors, and analogies abound. Bob even likens Howard’s leadership style to Johnny Bench. · Insights into Howard’s vision for the organization and how its’ habitat mission is always more important than the brand behind it. · We learn the importance of handshake deal for Howard, from a bar in Kansas to the creation of the Sage Grouse Initiative. · Bob and Howard also discuss the lessons learned from introducing wildlife to the Farm Bill in the 90’s that has led to new legislative language just last year in the Transportation Bill. · We learn the origin story of Quail Forever and the effort to engage a new community of volunteers in local habitat restoration and engagement. · Howard also talks about the agriculture community’s sustainability movement and how water quality is the key to the future for all of humankind. · Finally, the duo discusses the future of the organization and the need to foster a conservation ethic in future generations. · Along the way, Howard tells stories about some of the amazing people he’s met through his career and even cuts open a few veins giving a look inside his heart.

Episode 66: Catherine E. Semcer ( https://www.perc.org/people/catherine-e-semcer-2/)is a Research Fellow with the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) where her work focuses on rights and market based solutions to policy challenges in environmental security, conservation finance and sustainability... [continued below....] This episode's motto: "Owners are the best conservationists." __Links__ Habitat Loss and the Great Migration: https://www.perc.org/2019/12/04/will-the-circle-be-unbroken/ IWCC Testimony: https://www.perc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IWCC_Testimony_3_18.pdf Conservationists Should Support Trophy Hunting: https://www.perc.org/2019/09/06/conservationists-should-support-trophy-hunting/ CECIL Act Testimony: https://www.perc.org/2019/07/18/the-role-of-hunting-in-conserving-african-wildlife/ David on hunting elephants: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/09/demand-for-elephants-can-save-elephants/ [Bio continued...] Catherine is the past COO of Humanitarian Operations Protecting Elephants (H.O.P.E.), a boutique NGO delivering training, advisory, assistance and procurement services to African counter-poaching programs. During her tenure with H.O.P.E. she was responsible for leading the opening of projects in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Ethiopia. Prior to working with H.O.P.E. Catherine served as Senior Washington D.C. Representative for Sierra Club, where she worked to advance conservation programs in the Department of Defense to increase training range sustainability as well as further efforts to conserve the Greater Sage Grouse. Her work led to her being recognized by the USDA-NRCS for “outstanding contributions” to their Sage Grouse Initiative. Catherine began her career with McKinsey & Company where she supported the Environmental and Non-Profit Practices. Catherine's research and commentary has appeared in the International Journal of Environmental Studies, The Hill, and other publications. She has also been a guest on programs including Intelligence Squared US and EconTalk, where she has debated and discussed the political economy of African wildlife conservation. In addition to her work with PERC, Catherine serves as a research fellow with the African Wildlife Economy Institute at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She is a member of Sustainable Use and Livelihood Specialist Group International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Protected Areas Finance Working Group of Conservation Finance Alliance. Catherine is also a contributing editor to Conservation Frontlines and a past field editor of African Indaba, the official African publication of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC). Catherine is a graduate of Muhlenberg College. In her spare time she enjoys fly fishing, upland bird and waterfowl hunting, and sailing.

A great conversation with Christian Hagen and Jeremy Maestas about the natural history and conservation of the greater sage-grouse. Christian is a leading grouse scientist and research professor at OSU. Jeremy is a sagebrush ecologist at the NRCS and part of the Sage Grouse Initiative team implementing grouse conservation projects on private lands throughout the West.  Siskadee is the Crow name for Sage Grouse. photo by Steve Chindgren To support this podcast please visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/northwestnaturematters For more information about the Sage Grouse Initiative: https://www.sagegrouseinitiative.com/ Video: Wilson Wewa discusses the tribal perspectives on the meaning and significance of the sage grouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADW6IREJnGY Video: Excerpt from a sage grouse film produced by Steve Chindgren showing a huge winter flock in Wyoming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaVQE_HmeXI  

In this episode we talk about songbirds and umbrellas, the story of sage grouse conservation, how the Audubon Society’s Sagebrush Songbird Survey program uses GIS, and another opportunity for you to count birds.A special thank you to Christi Norman, program director of Audubon Washington, for information provided. We also depended on the Sage Grouse Initiative website for a lot of study facts and figures and a High Country News article, The Endangered Species Act’s Biggest Experiment.The Poop Detective starts us off by waxing poetic about the sagebrush ecosystem, specifically that which is located in eastern Washington and parts of Oregon. We explain sagebrush obligate species.We then discuss the sage grouse and its mating habits, and talk about why these species are at risk. We reference an article from High Country News.Because of the Sage Grouse’s particularities, they are a good indicator species for the overall health of the sagebrush ecosystems and the 350 other species that are dependent upon that ecosystem. They also have a huge, specific ecosystem range, which complicate the protection of the species. We also talk about the fact that it has never been listed as endangered.Oddly enough, this may have actually helped in their conservation! In 2015, US F&W decided that listing the sage grouse on the endangered species list was unwarranted.In sad news for science and endangered species everywhere, on July 19, 2018, the administration proposed to limit the power of the ESA in several ways. In late 2018 they also announced plans to roll back existing protections of the sage grouse by opening several protected areas to development. We shared Mark Rupp’s response, and he references some polling data.The sage grouse was slated for reevaluation for listing on the endangered species act in 2020, but we will see what happens under the current administration.We talk about how the Sage Grouse Initiative aims to manage to protect multiple species with different habitat requirements including other songbirds like the Brewer’s Sparrow (listen to its song and learn more!).Amy drops more facts about how the Sage Grouse is an umbrella species. Jen may have snoozed a bit until Amy mentioned songbird maps.We then started to switch gears to talk about a huge multi-year survey that eight Eastern Washington chapters of the Audubon Society took on as a group effort - the Sagebrush Songbird Survey project. This project is a partnership between the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and the Audubon Society. The goals of the project were to verify the accuracy of GIS mapping efforts and species models, track sagebrush songbird distribution in Eastern Washington, and collect information that would guide conservation efforts in the future. The Magical Mapper was excited to tell everyone how they used GIS on this project, because they used it in multiple phases of the project. The Audubon Society even teamed up with Esri!Most of the data from the survey is publicly available on eBird, although in the final year of the survey some private lands are being opened up to volunteers, and this information will be vetted and go into the WDFW Priority Habitat and Species database.For our citizen science segment, we talk about how the Audubon Society is looking for a few good cats, I mean volunteers, (at least 125 to be exact) to participate in the final year of the survey. There are a few requirements to be a volunteer, including attending training in March/April. You can see when the training is and RSVP to the coordinators on the project website. There are also many resources on the website so you can see what you’re signing up for before committing.For fun, we asked Christi Norman if the Sagebrush Steppe of Eastern Washington was a good place to hide out during a zombie apocalypse. She said:“It’s good as long as you don’t need much water, love a starry night, and are short enough to hang in the shade of the sagebrush in the summer heat. The rocks are pretty rough so you need an unlimited number of super-duper hiking boots –or perhaps a hoof adaptation. In the event of the catastrophic wildland fires wings would be helpful to fly away.”— Christi NormanIf you’re a teacher, you can check out this sagebrush curriculum, which was developed by US Fish and Wildlife.As always, thank you so much for visiting, and please subscribe to our podcast. We’re now on all of the major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and TuneIn. We’d appreciate it if you’d rate and review us, especially on Apple Podcasts (we’re trying to get into New and Noteworthy, so everything helps)! You’re the coolest cats around!

Sage Grouse Conservation with Ed Arnett - Chief Scientist at Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Listen this week as TRCP's Chief Scientist Ed Arnett provides an update on sage grouse and explains why all Americans should care about this iconic species and its vast habitat that spans eleven western states. Ed gives our listeners a comprehensive rundown on what we should know about sage grouse, including the following: history of sage grouse conservation habitat loss vs. habitat degradation lek sites Sage Grouse Initiative mitigation no net loss the 2010 'listed but precluded' ruling 2015 Obama era planning preferred habitat structure state, federal and private partnerships Current BLM planning changes RELATED LINKS: This American Land story on sage grouse: http://www.thisamericanland.org/news/sage-advice-for-sage-lands#.XDVfa1xKiUk NRCS Sage Grouse Initiative: https://www.sagegrouseinitiative.com/about/ Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Sagebrush Initiative: https://www.wafwa.org/initiatives/sagebrush_ecosystem_initiative/ FEE Article on Sage grouse: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/1540-9295-13.5.235 FEE article on the political pendulum:  https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.1982 Listen to East to West Hunting Podcast Episode 16 with TRCP's Whit Fosburgh by clicking HERE Listen to East to West Hunting Podcast Episode 34: Voluntary Public Access - A Farm Bill Success with TRCP's Alex Maggos and IL landowner Zane Zaubi by clicking HERE

Dr. Kirk Davies, lead range scientist at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center (EOARC) in Burns discusses with Tip invasive annual grass (IAG) on western rangelands and current research into promising new approaches to biological control of cheatgrass and ventenata. The conversation weaves in the role of fire in semi-arid shrub-steppe ecosystems, challenges in rehabilitating annual grass-infested rangeland, grazing as a biological control for cheatgrass, the pros and cons of sagebrush plants as refugia, and Dr. Davies' thoughts on how to promote perennial grasses simultaneous with grazing IAG. SURVEY Please take 60 seconds to complete this quick 5-question survey: wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4GHpHVHlsouSorr TRANSCRIPT The full transcript of this episode is available at: https://www.dropbox.com/home/Art%20of%20Range%20transcripts RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE The scientists at the EOARC are prolific publishers. This OSU/USDA research station makes their journal articles and research papers available to the public on their website. https://oregonstate.edu/dept/EOARC/publication and https://oregonstate.edu/dept/EOARC/resources-0 Journal article: An Alternative Management Paradigm for Plant Communities Affected by Invasive Annual Grass in the Intermountain West. May 2018 in Rangelands by Berry Perryman, Brad Schultz, Kent McAdoo, Sherman Swanson. Full text available at https://bit.ly/2LblZBl. Implications of Longer Term Rest from Grazing in the Sagebrush Steppe, journal article by Kirk Davies, Martin Vavra, Brad Schultz, and Neil Rimbey. They conclude from a wide literature review that "Not grazing can cause an accumulation of fine fuels that increase fire risk and severity and, subsequently, the probability of sagebrush steppe rangelands converting to exotic annual grasslands. One common theme they found was that shifts in plant communities (i.e., exotic annual grass invasion and western juniper encroachment), caused in part from historical improper grazing, cannot be reversed by long-term rest. This synthesis suggests that land managers should carefully consider if long-term rest will actually achieve their management goals and if a change in grazing management would achieve similar results." https://oregonstate.edu/dept/EOARC/sites/default/files/publication/798.pdf Adaptive Management for Invasive Annual Grasses: A Step-By-Step User's Guide for Implementing EBIPM, by Roger Sheley, Brenda Smith, Kimberly Reever-Morghan, and Tony Svejcar. 40pp. https://s3.amazonaws.com/sfc-dynamic-content/uploadfiles/152/Adaptive%20Management%20sm.pdf Grazing Invasive Annual Grasses: The Green & Brown Guide, by Brenda Smith, Roger Sheley, and Tony Svejcar. https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/55316/PDF Post-fire Grazing Management in the Great Basin, fact sheet for Sage Grouse Initiative. https://www.sagegrouseinitiative.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/7_Post-fire_Grazing.pdf

Loveland, CO- Steven Rinella talks with wildlife biologist Ed Arnett along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew. Subjects discussed: losers in Darwin's casino; that huntin' and fishin' problem; why you should care about the greater sage grouse; economically inconvenient animals; priority habitat; the Sage Grouse Initiative; the PECE Policy; the Roosevelt Party; Aldo Leopold and hunting technology; on Theodore Roosevelt and conservation; cautious optimism; and more. Click here to bring Steven Rinella and the MeatEater Podcast Live to your town.