News Roundup
- I don’t know how long it’s been up, but the University of Wisconsin has a huge collection of digital archives relating to Aldo Leopold. You can see his original Forest Service working papers and things.
- The likely extinct Yangtze River dolphin is becoming extinct in our minds, as well.
- An eloquent call for evolutionary biologists to be included in conservation. A lot of the points are accurate, but it’s frustrating to work with paleontologists who work on the time scale of “everything goes extinct. You need to worry about lineages.” But what about THE PANDAS???
- File under: Only Joel Berger. He and Jon Beckmann published a piece recently in Conservation Biology showing that towns focusing on energy extraction around Yellowstone had a disproportionate rise in human sexual predators. Ladies and gentleman, your newest ecosystem service.
- The Interior Department recently listed 48 species in Hawaii as endangered and is trying to put in place a landscape-scale plan for their recovery, rather than a species-by-species plan. That raised the number of listed species under Obama from 2 to 50.
- A longish article on the black market in bushmeat trade in the United States with a shout out to a certain JB.
- Beware the pizzly bear.
- Edward Tufte’s epic book on multiple regression, now on-line.
Posted by Tim on March 18th, 2010 • • Add a comment