U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center Public Lecture Series show

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center Public Lecture Series

Summary: Writers, Scientists, Conservationists, Historians Speak to the Public at NCTC. Meet the speakers.

Podcasts:

 Craig Stihler talks about white nose syndrome in bats and other challenges to WV endangered species | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 06:32

Craig Stihler is the Endangered Species Coordinator for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. He will discuss bats generally and then focus on their status in West Virginia and the region, with a special emphasis on the challenges different bat species (and those who are trying to conserve them) are facing. In particular he will review the problems now being posed by White Nose Syndrome, a fungal infection that is currently ravaging bat populations in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast and is continuing to spread to other regions. Stihler, who is based in Elkins, has worked for WVDNR for more than 30 years and headed its endangered species conservation efforts since 1987. He is recognized as an expert on a number of species, including the West Virginia northern flying squirrel and flat-spired three-tooth land snail. However, he is best known for his work on bats. Working with landowners and cavers alike, he has been a leader in the effort to reduce human disturbance in bat caves, which is a major threat to certain bat species. In 2006, he received the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s prestigious National Recovery Champion award, which recognizes professionals for outstanding contributions toward recovering threatened and endangered species in the United States.

 A Conversation with Jon Waterman, Author | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:52

In 1869, John Wesley Powell led a small party down the Green and Colorado Rivers in a bold attempt to explore the Grand Canyon for the first time. After their monumental expedition, they told of raging rapids, constant danger, and breathtaking natural beauty of the American landscape at its most pristine. Jon Waterman combines sheer adventure and environmental calamity in this trailblazing cautionary account of his 2008 trip down the overtaxed, drying Colorado. Dammed and tunneled, forced into countless canals, trapped in reservoirs and harnessed for electricity, what once was untamed and free is now humbled, parched, and so yoked to human purposes that in most years it trickles away 100 miles from its oceanic destination. Waterman writes with informal immediacy in this eye-witness account of the many demands on the Colorado, from irrigating 3.5 million acres of farmland to watering the lawns of Los Angeles. He shows how our profligacy and inexorable climate change spark political conflict, and how we can avert this onrushing ecological crisis. As he follows Powell afloat and afoot, Waterman reaches out both to adventure travelers and to scientists, conservationists, environmentalists, and anyone interested in the fragile interplay between nature and humans. Jonathan Waterman is the author of nine books, has made four television films, and works as a freelance author and filmmaker. In 2004, his writing about the Arctic won the prestigious National Endowment of the Arts Literary Fellowship.

 Phil Pister Desert Fishes Council - "Ethics and the Environmental Field Biologist " | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:50

Phil Pister retired in February 1990 following 38 years as a fishery biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game. He studied wildlife conservation and zoology under A. Starker Leopold at the University of California (Berkeley) and has spent virtually his entire career supervising aquatic management and research within an area encompassing approximately a thousand waters of the eastern Sierra/desert regions of California, ranging from the 14,000 foot crest of the Sierra Nevada to the floor of Death Valley lying below sea level. He founded and serves as executive secretary of the Desert Fishes Council and is involved in desert ecosystem preservation throughout the American Southwest and adjoining areas of Mexico. He holds special interest in the fields of conservation biology and environmental ethics and has served on the Board of Governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and Society for Conservation Biology. He also serves on the President's Advisory Committee of the University of California's system-wide White Mountain Research Station. He conducts environmental ethics workshops at the National Conservation Training Center (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) in West Virginia, has lectured at 81 universities in North America and the United Kingdom, and has authored more than 80 published papers and book chapters.

 Speaking with Filmmaker Moyna Huda | File Type: | Duration: 04:02
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Moyna Huda is a filmmaker from Bangladesh who screened his new film "A Tale of the Sundarbans." The Sundarbans are the biggest mangrove forest in the world and a unique repository of biodiversity in Bangladesh.

 A Conversation with Filmmaker Jonathan Van Ballenberghe | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 05:04

Jonathan Van Ballenberghe is the filmmaker for "In the Company of Moose." This film chronicles Biologist Vic Van Ballenberghe who has spent more time living with wild moose in Denali National Park, Alaska than any other researcher in the world.

 A Conversation with Stephen Potter, NPS Archeologist | File Type: | Duration: 18:44
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Stephen discusses his presentation "Aboriginal America and the Potomac Frontier, 1607-1676"

 A Talk with John Grabowska, NPS Filmmaker | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 09:37

John discusses Yellowstone National Park and the making of his film "Land to Life".

 Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3). A Conversation with Jena Thompson from the Conservation Fund | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 04:48

Jena talks about Go Zero, a program of the Conservation Fund.

 Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3). Talking with Case Hicks: Theodore Roosevelt Impersonator | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 05:02

How did Case become a Teddy Roosevelt impersonator? Hear his background and other interesting stories.

 Larry Battson Discusses the Facts and Fictions of Bigfoot | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 08:20

Bigfoot is a legendary (some claim "imaginary”) ape-like human who has been reportedly sighted from California to Indiana. Battson will give a presentation on the facts and fictions of Bigfoot including analysis of recordings of Bigfoot and casts of his footprint. Battson’s background as a wildlife educator gives him a unique perspective on Bigfoot as someone experienced in wild creatures. Larry and Cheryl Battson have appeared on television shows and traveled around the country with their wildlife show. They have rescued animals ranging from baboons to snakes to large felines and travel to many schools and public events educating and entertaining children and adults on the natural history of wild animals.

 Chuck Dunkerly Discusses Environmental Filmmaking & Changes in the American Landscape | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 07:00

Chuck Dunkerly is a Producer and Director for the National Park Service at the Harpers Ferry Center. He has delivered scores of award winning films for National Parks, on topics as diverse as on the Olympic National Park, Homesteading, Voting Rights and Leave No Trace. Currently Chuck is developing films for the USS Arizona Memorial, Lake Mead, and Zion National Park.

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