RodeoProfessor

American, never let foreigners shame you about how we protect our wildlife. Americans invented the field of wildlife biology (Aldo Leopold) integrating biology, ecology, and management. We were the first to create a national university system (starting with the University of Wisconsin’s program) to systematize the discipline of wildlife biology and grow our impact across species and systems. This professionalized wildlife science and management worldwide. Americans created the world’s first national parks establishing the idea of setting aside public land for wildlife and recreation. Our model is emulated globally. I have half a dozen senior fish and wildlife professionals at any given time that come to study with us to learn how we do it and bring what we know back home. Americans invented the idea of wildlife as a public trust (you own all of our wildlife, not a lord or a private land owner like in much of the old world). We passed laws to require rigorous science based management to inform hunting seasons. We saw the early errors of our ways and ended commercial game markets that decimated our big game. We invented the “user pays” system where hunters and anglers fund conservation via licenses and excise taxes on guns and ammo to the tune of $50 billion since our programs began. All of these innovations enabled the most dramatic and remarkable wildlife population recoveries on record. Bison, reduced to ~1000 now number half a million thanks to public land, science, and management. White tailed deer were nearly eliminated by 1900 now see numbers greater than 30 million. Wild turkey, my favorite example of a major conservation innovation in our trap and transfer programs (paid for by hunters) recovered spectacularly. Elk, beaver, birds of prey, pronghorn, the list goes on and on. America has also done more than any other nation in human history to fund global wildlife conservation as well. Billions of taxpayer dollars sent to Africa, LatAm, and Asia to protect wildlife and train local scientists, a largely thankless gift from the US taxpayer. Saying that our wildlife has been “exterminated” is just an insane and ignorant claim to make but don’t let that stop you from weighing in on our affairs!

@JDHaltigan Brown grad lmao

Of course a piece as ridiculous and deranged as this could only be written by someone named Erica Schwiegershausen. Just an absolute crisis of feminized derangement in lifestyle journalism.

@IcyVert Worst take of the tournament, congrats Icy Lib.

Legit chance this is the worst logo + team name combo ever

@Sam_Federman That guy’s account gave me aids, your logo and mascot are perfect.

Ever heard of a St. Bernard?

@actionxander @ChristinaPushaw Nowhere like it in the world, that green blue water in the back country, there’s nothing like it!

Florida Bay. The threshold between the Everglades and the Keys. Paddle with me through mangrove channels where crocodiles bask, wading birds patrol the shallows, and American flamingos have quietly returned to the Everglades. Wild Florida at its finest.

@bitmaelstrom @Zann_man_and If you’re that crazy lady he’s still alive! If you’re not, I did it myself and I give him a Catholic style last rites and make sure he went in comfort, warmth, and dignity (truth). We all have a little wildlife crazy person in our hearts don’t we.

@RodeoProfessor @Zann_man_and Not Trevor! Nooooo!

There are really obvious tells when dealing with crazy people in the wildlife field. I once had a lady call me 100 times in one afternoon over an injured bird she named and turned in. She’d melt down when I wouldn’t “use the bird’s name,” (it was Trevor). They obsess over individual animals vs. populations (pops are what we manage by US law). The fangirl shirt plus the stuffed animal = this woman shouldn’t be in charge of her own lunch and is deranged by wildlife.

@YouTubeTV why do I have to have boomer cable news channels shoved down my throat on the multi view? This is MARCH, baby, I want to see the hogs on one half my tv and the McNeese state cowboys on the other.

@FartyBardfast One of my good buddy colleagues is the state reptile guy and I always make him choose his favorite reptile and he always picks the horned frog after much agonizing.

@RodeoProfessor Common wildlife as a kid in West Texas. Much harder to find them these days.

Texas horned frog diet is 90% ants, their blood plasma neutralizes venom & they have extra mucusy throats to stop ants from biting them on the way down, congrats to the Horned Frogs! Fun fact: TCU is a leading hub for rhino conservation, pioneering anti poaching horn removal.

@MarchMadnessMBB @HuskerMBB Big congrats to the corn people today. This is March!

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING FOR NEBRASKA FANS 😅🙌 Huskers secure their first ever NCAA Tournament win 🌽 #MarchMadness

@BrandonLukeMc Haha ….oh no

@RodeoProfessor $4 million 😂

Quacks like this woman have completely infiltrated the wildlife profession, whether it’s crazies who drop wolves in ranch country or make scam bridges for mountain lions when they’re not the main species w/ vehicle strikes. High net worth individuals bankroll these kooky NGO campaigns that are beginning to have major impacts on state level wildlife policy and institutions that used to be pretty apolitical and responsive to what regular people want. You really have to go digging around tax filings to follow the money with these quack environmental NGOs that pose as wildlife conservationists, but the usual cast of characters include: Hansjörg Wyss (Swiss billionaire), Google co-founder Eric Schmidt’s Schmidt Family Foundation, Herb and Marion Sandler’s Sandler Foundation (NYC billionaires), Fred Stanback (NC pharma billionaire), Carroll Petrie (SC/FL billionaire). Of course your tax dollars are a big part of the picture too, but their power and influence is much aligned with the NGO borg.

@Sagefire91 That’s like saying a tuft of grass talks to you, sheesh

@RodeoProfessor In preparation for a prescribed burn, we had to meet with a woman who needed us to save one particular juniper. That tree had been, in her world, speaking to her for years. And our management took this seriously and we put a line around the tree so it would not burn.

@chas_clifton @jonkay @BrandonLukeMc Wow I’m getting queerer by the day then

@RodeoProfessor @jonkay @BrandonLukeMc "Queer" is so loose now. I learned a few years back that if your degree is in one discipline but you are teaching in a different one, you can call yourself a "queer scholar." So I qualified!

interesting case study that shows what white men have had to do over the last 10 years to remain employed in avant garde art spaces. Compare Ben Bogart’s bio from 2016 with 2026. Same guy. Except he reinvented himself as “neurodivergent nonbinary agender” (they/them, of course)

@memeticsisyphus Some of my favorite musicians had massive heroine problems but yeah let me just go ahead and adopt all their views for how society ought to function

Yes we pair it with emotional stability so we don’t care if someone doesn’t like us back.

@KSL_Matt Awful

WARMER THAN FLORIDA: Forget spring break in Miami, we’ve got better weather here in Salt Lake City! My latest forecast calls for 3 straight days of all-time March warmth, yes, all 3 days could break the monthly record in SLC (80°). More backwards weather for you this fine 2026.

@RadDawg2 Hoo boy …. Nurse she’s loose

@RodeoProfessor Wait until you find out she has a full upper arm tattoo of that specific mountain lion.

@America1stLegal Babe wake up, another thing just dropped where if you talk to normies about it they’ll think you’re insane

/1🚨EXPOSED — Biden CIA’s War on Motherhood: Newly released CIA documents reveal the Biden Administration identified “motherhood” and “homemaking” as indicators of “white racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism” (REMVE).

When people live in cities and states where plastic bags are banned, they just purchase rolls on Amazon so the net demand is constant for things like dog waste and bathroom trash cans…Will Stancil Voice: “But we gotta DO SOMETHING!”

Plastic bag bans in America have become another way for lib politicians to “DO SOMETHING!” If you survey marine debris for example and you trace country of origin, 99% of plastic trash on our SE and Gulf coasts is from Haiti (where all plastic is just tossed into the river).

@Hamberder13051 You haven’t met my best boy though lol, I’d drop 100k to clone him if I could

@RodeoProfessor At least those are tools providing a valued service. I still wouldn't get them 5k cancer treatment though