Ep. 11, Human impacts on wildlife in North America with Dan Flores

Join Mark and Sam for the top four news stories of the week including:

• "Furbearer" policies in Colorado
• Washington Governor rescinds appointment of leading scientist to wildlife commission
• Central Park coyote in parking garage
• Trump increases logging in National Forests

Followed by an incredibly important conversation with Dan Flores, author, historian, and Project Coyote Ambassador. The history of humans and wildlife in North America is essential to understanding the institutions that govern wildlife management today.

A native of Louisiana, Dan Flores is a writer who presently lives in the Galisteo Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of the History of the American West at the University of Montana-Missoula.  He is the author of ten books, most recently the New York Times Bestseller, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (2016), and American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains (2016).  Pulitzer-winning novelist Annie Proulx has written that “his work ranks with that of Thoreau, William Bartram, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Peter Matthiessen.”

Dr. Flores’s essays on the environment, art, and culture of the West have appeared in newspapers like the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune, and in magazines such as Texas Monthly, Orion, Wild West, Southwest Art, The Big Sky Journal, and High Country News. His work has been honored by the Western Writers of America, the Denver Public Library, the Western Heritage Center/National Cowboy Museum, the High Plains Book Awards, the Montana Book Awards, and the Oklahoma Book Awards, and by the Western History Association, the Montana Historical Society, and the Texas State Historical Association.