06-12: Winning for Farmers and Birders with Forrest Rowland
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Forrest Rowland advocates for ecotourism around the world as a tour leader for Rockjumper and for ecotourism close to home with Landtrust, an effort to connect landowners in the west and outdoor recreationists in some pretty interesting ways. Birders get access to private ranches full of amazing birds and wildlife and landowners get to put their properties to work in an environmentally sustainable way. It's a win-win-win for birders, landowners, and the birds they are working to protect. He joins Nate Swick to talk about how it works and why people need more places to enjoy outdoor recreation in an increasingly crowded west.
Plus, it's March Madness and bird teams are succeeding on the court, if not in their logos.
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| 0:33.5 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:37.3 | I am Nate Swick. I don't know about you, but I've been watching a lot of basketball these days. |
| 0:43.3 | It's March Madness. Sweet 16 is set. And even if you are not a fan, I do think it's worthwhile to take stock of the state of bird mascots in the collegiate basketball world. |
| 0:55.2 | And it was quite a good weekend for bird mascots despite generally being a down year for them |
| 1:01.2 | in the broad tournament-wide sense. Usually we see a lot of eagles in the field. This year |
| 1:06.8 | there was only one, the Golden Eagles of Marquette, who lost in the first round. |
| 1:11.6 | And even separating out Raptor body parts didn't work as the Hawkeyes of Iowa failed to make |
| 1:17.1 | the second round, despite being dark horses, felled by the spiders of Richmond and some arthropod |
| 1:22.6 | on bird action. It was also not a great year for the best of the collegiate bird mascots, at least in |
| 1:29.3 | terms of accuracy. The Blue Jays of Creighton University, whose logo is actually a really nice |
| 1:35.2 | likeness of the bird itself. So it was somewhat ironic that they were eliminated by the Jayhawks |
| 1:41.4 | of Kansas, whose mascot is a fake bird who wears shoes. Come on, |
| 1:45.9 | how does a bird even put on shoes? Where do the shoes go? Do they go all the way up to the heel? |
| 1:50.2 | How do they get the toes in there? It's a mess. At least they didn't have teeth, though, |
| 1:55.7 | like the Louisville Cardinal, an abomination of nature that thankfully did not even make the field. |
| 2:01.4 | Nope, the big surprise, both from a sporting and ornithological perspective, came from |
| 2:05.7 | Tiny St. Peter's University from Jersey City, New Jersey, home to so many birds. |
| 2:11.6 | World Series of birding, it makes sense. |
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