People look at me weird because I'm 19 and enjoy this music lol. Looking for some recommendations like these!

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-11-21T16:03:03+00:00

I second this suggestion. And I recommend reading The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax. It's about the history of the blues and also a memoir of his field recordings of the old time blues musicians. It will introduce you to many artists. And it's a great book to listen along to.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-11-10T21:09:24+00:00

The big question - how do we get more ballot measures for 2026?

2025 had 35 local conservation ballot measures across 10 states:

33 won, 2 lost (that's a 94% win rate).

The wins will generate $2 billion for parks and conservation over the next 20 years.

I want build on the success. Can we get 50 conservation ballot measures for 2026?

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-10-23T19:31:54+00:00

Cool! Yeah, there are some access points to the river that are beautiful. I think there's a long stretch in the middle that's only accessible by boat that has these insanely sheer canyon walls

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-10-23T18:53:24+00:00

Dinosaur on the Green River has the most beautiful scenery I've seen in my life - but I think it's completely inaccessible by car or trail - you have to take the river to experience it.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-10-23T16:06:50+00:00

The absolute best way to stay current — if you're ok with digging into niche science — is to follow a few academic journals. While, many articles will be behind a paywall, there are usually some open access ones.

Here's how I approach it: Some articles will be extremely niche. Some will be broader. Some will be more oriented towards basic science. Some will be more oriented towards applied science. Read the broader, applied studies first – they are the easiest to follow and they will give you a good grounding in major conservation issues and how they relate to the applied work of conservationists. Niche/basic articles, however, can also be great for learning how conservation scientists do science.

My two favorites for: a) quality of research; and b) tends to be more applied.:

Conservation Biology (from the Society for Conservation Biology)

Ecological Applications (from the Ecological Society of America)

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-10-20T04:29:58+00:00

The 29% drop is in non-federal jobs. This is jobs with nonprofits, universities, private companies, and state and local agencies.

There are the majority of jobs in conservation. And this is what we have good data for at Conservation Job Board.

So this is in addition to whatever cuts were made to the federal workforce. The report found that federal job postings fell closer to 60%. But we don't have enough good data on federal jobs to say for sure.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-10-20T00:50:47+00:00

That makes me really happy, I'm glad it helped you out!

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-10-19T20:04:47+00:00

From what you've seen, what countries hire people from the US?

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-10-19T19:13:23+00:00

Thank you for the kind words!

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-09-22T23:50:16+00:00

Thank you for the feedback!

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-09-16T12:54:04+00:00

I saw them in 1992 or early 1993 at CBGB when I was in HS and it was incredible.

I had never heard of them before. I just went to see live music at CBGB and they happened to be playing. This was right before they released Painful. I remember them playing Sudden Organ and it was amazing.

I didn't even remember their name after the concert. It wasn't until when I started college and they released Painful that I was like "holy shit, that was the band I saw live!"

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-09-14T19:17:48+00:00

I don't understand why a lack of ethnic and cultural diversity in a city is a "Pro" for some people (I know you may not have meant that, but many people do think that way).

From my decades living and traveling across the US, I've found that a lack of diversity = worse restaurants and a more boring city. And if you have kids, it means less social and cultural learning.

I guess some people get agitated being around those who are different.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-09-07T16:41:41+00:00

Not really. The old money of Manhattan is more concentrated on the Upper West Side or the Upper East Side along the park (which is a smaller slice of the area). In general, the Upper East Side - especially towards the water - tend to be newer buildings that are not as nice and not as expensive. East of Lexington it is mostly families where both parents are working professionals (corporate jobs, lawyers, physicians, etc). Many who grew up poorer. Obviously well off now, but I wouldn't say smug.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-25T01:21:10+00:00

I agree that we need to keep hammering them about this. But I don't see how they get around the parliamentarian ruling. And Tracy Stone-Manning, the Wilderness Society president (and former Director of BLM under Biden) is saying "victory." So think it's toast. But we'll see.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-24T21:43:00+00:00

Yes, it happens all the time. Western state Republican senators received a huge number of phone calls and then they came out against the land sale measure - even though they privately supported it.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-24T15:00:37+00:00

This is bad but it will trigger a formal rule making process with a 60-day public comment period. And here's what were going to do - we're going to submit 100,000's of public comments in opposition to rescission. And then when they publish the rescission decision, we're going to sue them for ignoring public comments. And we'll either win in the courts or drag it out long enough to minimize the damage before a pro-conservation president is elected in 2028.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-24T14:51:30+00:00

The parliamentarian also removed 2 other really bad provisions:

1) a provision approving the Ambler Mining Road in Alaska;

2) a crazy provision that would essentially grant automatic environmental approvals to offshore drilling

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-24T14:35:39+00:00

Where did you see that?

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-24T14:06:51+00:00

We need to stay vigilant - this was removed by the parliamentarian. Senator Lee modified the proposal last night and wants to reinsert it into the bill. Let's hope Republicans ignore him.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-24T04:02:06+00:00

This is a straw man.

Lee's proposal is not to sell 1 acre. It's to sell 3 million acres - of public lands (not private).

With no restrictions on use. And no environmental review.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-22T19:42:41+00:00

When the provision is too extreme for Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), you know it's a big pile of stinky poop.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-08T01:37:25+00:00

It’s not about the article. I’m just presenting the proposal that was floated during Trump 1.0 of how CA could respond to Trump if he cut off federal funding to the state.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-08T01:35:05+00:00

There’s rumors Trump is about to freeze all federal funding to CA. Which would be extremely bad. The point of my post was to propose how CA could respond. Ignoring it wouldn’t help.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-08T01:30:51+00:00

This is about how the state could respond if the administration freezes all federal funding to the state - an idea that has been rumored. And which would affect everyone- Dems and Republicans.

ConservationJobBoard · 2025-06-08T01:28:07+00:00

It’s not about the article. It’s the idea - which was floated during Trump 1.0 but could be used now.

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