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I just arrived in DC last night. National Audubon flew me here to lobby for climate change legislation. The National Offices are wonderful. I wish I could work here, a major center of bird conservation. Will post updates as things progress.

I’m in a seminar at Blog World & New Media Expo right now and I’m really seeing a lack of discussion of conservation or mission-driven topics. Of the hundred or so speaker bios, I see none that are from this realm. What is going on here? Where are you conservation-based [...]

Biodiesel production switch! Check it out.

My film about the politics and ecology of fire in the Northern Rockies, entitled Disturbance, is an Official Selection for the Montana CINE International Film Festival in Missoula, MT. It will screen at 12:30 on October 21st, so if you are in the area, please come see it if you [...]

Here is a quick image I just pulled from my editing this evening. This is the extraordinary White-faced Ibis. One of my favorite Rocky Mountain birds by far.

Costal birds in the path of climate change.

We discovered that our Special Use Permit is expired, and we cannot access government lands like we did this spring. The person in charge of renewing them is headed out of town for a week tomorrow, and is unwilling to deal with our little problem until she returns. That’s cool. [...]

Tomorrow I’m headed to film bighorn ram behavior with a veteran researcher. I’m doing this to help my friend Dawson put together a demo for a film he’s hoping to pitch next year. The weather looks sketchy, but we’re going anyhow. I might freeze my fingers off, get snowed on, [...]

I went through some aerial footage from the September 9th flight over the Madison Valley.  The flight was provided free of charge by lighthawk.org, a fantastic organization that provides aerial perspectives to further conservation efforts.  Fixed wing aircraft are not ideal for aerial filming since the ride is bumpy and [...]