RodeoProfessor

Part time rodeo clown 🇺🇸 Full time faculty clown

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

American, never let foreigners shame you about how we protect our wildlife.

Americans invented the field of wildlife biology (Aldo Leopold) integrating biology, ecology, and management. We were the first to create a national university system (starting with the University of Wisconsin’s program) to systematize the discipline of wildlife biology and grow our impact across species and systems. This professionalized wildlife science and management worldwide.

Americans created the world’s first national parks establishing the idea of setting aside public land for wildlife and recreation. Our model is emulated globally. I have half a dozen senior fish and wildlife professionals at any given time that come to study with us to learn how we do it and bring what we know back home.

Americans invented the idea of wildlife as a public trust (you own all of our wildlife, not a lord or a private land owner like in much of the old world). We passed laws to require rigorous science based management to inform hunting seasons. We saw the early errors of our ways and ended commercial game markets that decimated our big game. We invented the “user pays” system where hunters and anglers fund conservation via licenses and excise taxes on guns and ammo to the tune of $50 billion since our programs began.

All of these innovations enabled the most dramatic and remarkable wildlife population recoveries on record. Bison, reduced to ~1000 now number half a million thanks to public land, science, and management. White tailed deer were nearly eliminated by 1900 now see numbers greater than 30 million. Wild turkey, my favorite example of a major conservation innovation in our trap and transfer programs (paid for by hunters) recovered spectacularly. Elk, beaver, birds of prey, pronghorn, the list goes on and on. America has also done more than any other nation in human history to fund global wildlife conservation as well. Billions of taxpayer dollars sent to Africa, LatAm, and Asia to protect wildlife and train local scientists, a largely thankless gift from the US taxpayer.

Saying that our wildlife has been “exterminated” is just an insane and ignorant claim to make but don’t let that stop you from weighing in on our affairs!

[Birch Brother 🪓 @BjorkBrodern]

The mass extermination of American fauna just proves that European anti poaching laws were correct and just.

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

@kylegersper @brim006 @atlanticesque Such a great idea. Also, dispersed camping in the Black Hills NF is my favorite place to dispersed camp in America.

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@ColoradoJerrry

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The public land sale language is under Goal 4, Objective 4.2 of Dept of Interior’s newly published strategic plan, Search the PDF for “decrease the size of the federal estate” to jump to the paragraph about sales to states, local governments, and Tribes. https://t.co/RDEHN2IAHa

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

@brim006 @kylegersper @atlanticesque They don’t even have the great presidents faces carved into their mountains …

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@WatershedNat Congress already gave BLM limited authority to sell land under FLPMA § 203. A qualifying sale can proceed without a new bill. For tracts over 2,500 acres, the law requires notice to Congress and a waiting period, with no affirmative vote required.

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

Yes, Interior’s Nov 10 strategic plan says it will pursue sales of federal public land to states. Without enforceable limits on resale, states will turn around & sell the land to private buyers, developers, and those w/ political connections. We will fight this very hard.

[East Idaho News @EastIDNews]

Trump administration to pursue public land sales and a decrease in federal ownership https://t.co/ZeOIOePwbf

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@rockymtnhighUT @llx1llx1 Not even in America! Not even in your state!

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@caseymurph1 @americaunwon I’d take sabbatical and work on your campaign

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@MurfJon @llx1llx1 Even in lib states like Colorado!

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@LincolnBanks6 Plump as hell

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@BenjiBacker @juststan239800 Terrible.

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@llx1llx1 It will be people with large piles of cash, developers, foreign buyers, you name it. Once the state gets it, in the Rockies, many are obligated to sell these lands by their own constitutions or by state law.

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@OldHollowTree I have a call every few months with my R3 coordinator guy in my previous state to ask him general questions about the state of conservation. These guys know so much and access to them is free! Best of luck to her!

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

@caseymurph1 Well said brother. I’m going to hammer this word because it’s so poorly understood (which is why they’re moving it in this direction). Those lands are OBLIGATED to be disposed of out where we live.

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@Teri5hty @PblcLndNtnlst The guys who’ve been working to sell public land have been working on it for decades, the goal is obfuscation. Give back to the states so states then sell with less media uproar years down the line.

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@Arminius214 @StrangerJosh11 My favorite meme I’ve ever seen in my whole damn life, a true artist

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@FJ60_CF Look at the photo on your profile, BLM landscapes like that are about to have fences put up to keep you off once they’re sold to developers and investment firms. Old men like you grew up with wide open Western landscapes that you want to sell out from under the next generation.

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@StrangerJosh11 @Arminius214 Also if some libtards want to pay us $10,000 to post them let me know (lol joke)

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@StrangerJosh11 Does anyone have those memes that say “shut the fuck up boomer” w/ like glacier in the background and the “No circa 2008” GWOT guy @Arminius214 ? I need them again

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@gametaker69 Rocky Mountain states have a track record of selling state trust land. Mike Lee tried to put millions of federal acres up for sale, and now Interior wants to sell land to states. Expecting some of it to end up in private hands is a reasonable, dipshit.

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

@ASBaird Congress already gave Interior authority under FLPMA to sell certain BLM parcels. If a tract qualifies and Interior follows the required procedures, it can sell that land without Congress passing a new law for that parcel.

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

@ASBaird Interior needs legal authority for each sale. For BLM land sold under FLPMA, the parcel has to qualify through land-use planning and meet statutory sale criteria (including public comment). Interior’s strategic plan itself gives the department zero new authority to sell land.