[CONVERSATION] Saxon Richardson // Talking out of our asses (a donkey debrief)

Photo by Roberto Lee Cortes

Summary

Saxon and Mendel chat through some cutting room bits and pieces from FE6.3 — Get Yer Ass Outta Here!

Enclosed:

  • Some making-of details

  • The role of Timbisha Shoshone people in maintaining open water in the Mojave, pre-burro introduction

  • Astrid Kodric-Brown's work on endangered pupfish

  • Saxon's experience going into remote springs with Erick

  • Is sterilization a realistic option for managing wild burro populations?

  • Bighorn sheep population dynamics & connectivity

  • Threats to bighorn and tortoises other than burros

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This episode of Future Ecologies was recorded and produced on the unceded territories of the Musqueam (xwməθkwəy̓əm) Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil-Waututh (Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh) Nations - otherwise known as Vancouver, British Columbia.