04-38: What Now in Bird Policy with Tykee James

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🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We now see ourselves on the cusp of a change in leadership in the United States. A brand new administration will replace the current one in January, and we’re already seeing people looking forward to what this means for birds, public lands, and conservation. Into that conversation comes Tykee James, who is, among other things, the host of the wildlife and politics podcast On Word for Wildlife of the Wildlife Observer Network. He joins host Nate Swick from Washington, DC, to talk about what we can expect in coming months.

Also, a wild story about the on and off sale of Salineño Preserve in South Texas.

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0:00.0	Have you been outburning?
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0:21.0	slash aBA hello and welcome to the american birding podcast from the american
0:30.7	burning association i'm your host nate swick seems like there's a lot of not so great news out there in the world, maybe a little
0:41.7	anxiety-inducing, a little nerve-wracking. It's all just a little heavy. Would you like to
0:46.8	hear some good news, some inspirational news? Fair warning, it starts out as many of these
0:53.1	stories do. It's not good news, but it improves. So let me tell you a story. And bear in mind that this all sort of happened really quickly in the last 10 days, two-week period. So a little bit of a whiplash thing going on. Last week, we in the burning community and the ABA generally got some frustrating
1:12.0	news about the Valley Land Fund, which is a non-profit organization that essentially protects
1:18.3	wild spaces in South Texas from development. They do different things. They purchase the property
1:24.3	outright. They will work with private landowners, et cetera. It's a small but
1:29.0	effective force for wildlife and conservation in a place that badly needs that sort of thing.
1:35.4	One of these properties that the Valley Land Fund manages is called Salinano Preserve, which is this
1:40.2	little patch of land right on the Rio Grande in Star County near Roma. So it's up the
1:45.7	river from all the main Texas hotspots, but it's one that has a lot of history, a lot of
1:50.5	burning history at least. There's a pretty reliable spot for Morlett seed eater, formerly
1:55.1	white-colored seed eater in the vicinity. But the Salinanineal preserve itself used to be known as
2:00.7	the Duwins, the De Wins
2:03.1	feeder after a winter Texan couple who were the last residence of an old RV park there.
2:09.0	That is sort of a normal thing in South Texas.
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