Hey folks, Randy Noberg here. Welcome to Lootful Ponce Dock of Radio.

Hey folks, Randy Noberg here with another episode of Lootful Tuntock Radio. Hope you're doing well.

We're moving right along near its February 2020 to Holy Smolk. Can't believe that.

But appreciate all you follow and everything we do. Sometimes I scratch my head and wonder why anyone watches any of our videos or listens to any of our podcasts.

But I really appreciate the fact that all of you do. So, one, thank you.

Today, I have a guest that is, I don't want to say he's the kickoff of this effort at our office, but he certainly is at the pinnacle of the wildlife profession.

At our net, you heard him on the podcast, I think back in 2015 or 2016, where we talked about sage grouse. He is formerly with theater Roosevelt Conservation Partners.

And now, he has taken the job as the CEO of the Wildlife Society.

And some of you might say, well, who's the Wildlife Society? Well, it's the professional association of all of our biologists, state, federal, tribal, independent.

If you are in the wildlife sciences or ecology, any of those, you probably are a member of the Wildlife Society, either the National Chapter or National Association or your state chapter.

And the reason I want to add to be on here is, I've identified, I might be wrong, but one of the weak links we have in our communications in the outdoor space is we fail to take all this great science, all this great research and data, and get it to, I'll call them consumers, the audience, the hunters, the anglers.

And so, too often, some really, really cool research project on whatever it might be, disease or migrations or, you know, clean air, clean water, invasive this, habitat type that, it ends up on someone's hard drive, and we who could use that and could advocate for that, never end up with it.

So, I'm going through a whole list of people this year that I think are amazing scientists, and I'm going to have them on the podcast, we're going to do videos on it.

And the whole idea is, how do we make science and biology and all the management that is supported by that? How do we make that consumable by audiences? How do we make it digestible so that when people read it and see it, it's something that is meaningful to them?

It hopefully causes them to think about it, and when the time comes, it causes them to advocate on behalf of that.

The people you'll see in upcoming podcasts, they're chosen for a reason. Either they're in the sciences, they have a science background, or they are leading an organization who is advocating for wildlife based on science.

Information and data. So, Ed is kind of the first person here because he leads this organization, the Wildlife Society, that is the professional association of all these people.

And there's a lot of, I call them big brain people, and I don't put myself in the category of big brain. My grandma used to say you got a big brain or a big mouth, but tell them do you have bulls, so since I don't have a big brain, you know what category I fall into.

But hey, how? Appreciate you being here. I hope you get something of this discussion, and it's going to lay the groundwork for where we're going with this as a parallel to this.

Marcus Hockett in our office, he is scripted and designed a new series that will go out each week about current conservation, science, and wildlife issues that we think people should be paying attention to.

Marcus having a background is undergrad is in wildlife management, he's way more suited for that than I am. And it's just important to us, we feel the urgency of how critical these issues are in our time.

They've always been urgent, but they seem even more urgent now. So I hope you'll listen to these, I hope you'll take something from them, and when the time comes, I hope you'll advocate for the things that we love.

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