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New Wild Review v6e3 Taking it Squirrel by Squirrel with Napa Wildlife Center’s Linnaea Furlong.
Thursday, April 17, 2025 • Duration 01:13:52
Join us on New Wild Review for a conversation with Napa Wildlife Rescue's Director of Animal Care and Operations, Linnaea Furlong. (please check out the awesome work of Napa Wildlife Rescue)A recent social media post by Linnaea struck a chord with New Wild Review. She wrote:"It's surreal, watching all the systems breaking from above in the world, and wondering how it's going to turn out, but at the same time, now I need to feed baby squirrels, now I need to bathe the raccoon child with mange, now I need to put worms in the glowing orange gapes of phoebes, now I need to train the new hotline person. Things are falling apart and staying the same at once and I am just taking it squirrel by squirrel."
In our conversation, we talk about what it means to provide care across boundaries during chaotic and dangerous times.Your support for Bird Ally X, and all of our projects, from Humboldt Wildlife Care Center, to our Botulism Response Team to this podcast, is deeply appreciated. It's your generosity that makes it all happen. We need you now very much. Please donate if you can.
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New Wild Review v 6 e 2 – When Saving the Earth means Rescuing Society
Friday, March 14, 2025 • Duration 14:46
I have been working as a wildlife rehabilitator for 26 years. I will tell you briefly why. One day in the late 90s I looked up from the book I was reading - I had been studying the westward expansion of the US, and reading women's diaries of the overland crossing, the details surrounding the "ill-fated" Donner Party, and of course the genocide of Native Americans that was part and parcel of so-called Manifest Destiny. I looked up from the book, which was filled with nightmarish suffering, and looked outside - it was 4 am. In the eastern sky the last quarter moon was rising over the Cascades, Venus was just below and behind the mountains the sky was beginning to glow with the coming dawn. Suddenly the dome of sky was a vast expanse, and here I was, in it. In the mix with the Earth, the moon, Venus and the Sun. The mountains jagged in a mountainous perfection and all of the known world before me. At breakfast later, I was reading the Seattle Weekly - an ad for the PAWS Wildlife Center asked "Want to Help Return and Animal to the Wild?" and I knew in my heart, in my gut as they say, that this ad was for me. I needed the real world, unmediated by books, just as I had seen at 4 am… real, concrete, actionable. And action, not study, is what I needed. Even then, 1999, the world was in grave danger. The greenhouse effect had supplanted nuclear winter as the thing that was going to get us all in the end in the late 80s. By 1999 we were already calling that phenomenon 'climate change'. I had moved to Seattle from New Jersey in 1993. It was the aftermath of the forest wars. As a reader, of course I had caught up with the science and political skirmishes surrounding ancient forests and old-growth logging. Timothy Egan's book The Good Rain was an excellent introduction to the Pacific Northwest and offered a concise history of the region including the battles to save the forests, and the most famous indicator species of forest health, the Spotted Owl. My reading had walked me right up to that moment at 4 am, and there I stood at the window, dissolved by the real and reassembled in an instant … In an instant the mountains were no longer mountains and the stars no longer stars and then they were, mountains mountains and stars stars again. While I still had and still have so much to learn, it was then that I graduated into my real work. I needed to help with the ordinary grueling work of rescue. Rescuing what our world was treating as so much "overburden" - the forest and wild community that sits inconveniently above all that valuable mineral wealth, whether is is coal, or gold, or a good location for a billionaire's golf course. Like most of us currently topside, I was born into a world that had a doomsday clock ticking. It has been a feature of daily recognition that bad times were coming, if we didn't change our ways and for over twenty we've largely known that it was too late. It was probably the nineties when it last seemed possible that we could have a future watching our great great grandchildren grow on a green Earth from our little corner of the afterlife. From the vivid protests against the World Trade Organization, November of '99 to the launch of the destruction of Iraq in March of 2003 the prevailing idea, in America at least, was that the future was going to be a lot worse than it had to be. Avarice had outflanked prudence and care. The world was less profitable saved than burned. Money had spoken. In the twenty some years since, we've lived through hope and dread in a cycle almost as dependable as the tides. But even our hopes, our accomplishments, such as marriage equality, the occasional killer cop who is charged with homicide, and so on, even these in each election since 2008 have been grounded in the inescapable realities of climate disruption and environmental catastrophe that we'd have to deal with - no matter how much reform and transformation we bring to the still pressing injustices of our daily world,
New Wild Review vol 6 ep 1 Loren Eiseley’s The Star Thrower
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 • Duration 51:06
In the first podcast of 2025, we look at the essay by Loren Eiseley, "The Star Thrower", first published in his book The Unexpected Universe (1969). This essay has been paraphrased in numerous ways over the years, telling a simple story of a man encountering another person throwing Sea Stars into the ocean after they'd been heaved onto a beach by a storm. The man usually says something to the effect of "but there are so many, your efforts won't matter." No matter how the essay is paraphrased, it ends with the thrower telling the man that "it mattered to this one!"While many find the little story thus paraphrased useful, the essay is so much more than that - in fact the phrase "it mattered to this one" isn't even in the orirginal text. Rather the essay is about the natural and proper work of beating back against the odds and loving the world. Eiseley writes of coming to realize that compassion, which in his time was considered anti-science, is as much a part of human nature as the fierce competitive aspect of living in the actual world which has been the presumption since Darwin. It's a magnificent and deeply reasoned piece of writing. You can listen to it here, in the latest edition of New Wild Review.
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Latest Podcast! New Wild Review vol 5 ep 3 with Laura Corsiglia, imagination and the Wild!
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 • Duration 01:17:40
On the day I met Laura Corsiglia, I knew. Who else would I ever be able to talk with about wildlife and reality and necessity the way we could. Here's a bit of what I mean
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New Wild Review vol 5 ep 2 Disaster Response and Everyday Living
Season 5 · Episode 2
Friday, November 1, 2024 • Duration 01:08:14
Our latest episode of New Wild Review with guest Lucinda Adamson, Humboldt Wildlife Care Center's Assistant Rehabilitation Manager.
New Wild Review vol 5 ep 1: Wildlife Rehabilitation, practice and ethics, an essay.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 • Duration 56:05
Reading a draft of an essay on ethics for our profession.
New Wild Review (v 4 e 1), Gratitude, Progress and some Despair.
Sunday, October 1, 2023 • Duration 56:05
Our latest podcast, at last - an update on Summer, a big thank you to our supporters fro helping us out in our time of need, an avian botulism outbreak in the central valley, and a warming ocean spells disaster for us all.... stream or down load New Wild Reveiw, vol 4 episode 1!
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Some links related to information in the podcast:local coverage of leptospirosis outbreak in California Sea Lions
https://krcrtv.com/north-coast-news/eureka-local-news/leptospirosis-cases-rise-among-california-sea-lionsthe wamring seas
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/marine-heat-wave-18283742.php
more sick sea lions
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/sick-sea-lions-18357033.php
Oregon Dpet of Fish and Wildlife asks public to ignore suffering Common Murre chicks
https://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2023/08_Aug/081623.aspAvian Botulism outbreak in Tulare Lake
https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/efforts-intensify-to-assist-avian-botulism-affected-birds-at-tulare-lake#gsc.tab=0
New Wild Review vol 3 episode 2 – It becomes a part of you – a conversation with Veronica Bowers, songbird rehabilitator and advocate.
Sunday, December 4, 2022 • Duration 01:31:51
This podcast is the recording of a conversation over the internet (please forgive the occasional audio glitch!) with Veronica Bowers the founder and executive director of Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastapol, California. Veronica is a leader in rehabilitative songbird care, a powerful advocate for songbird conservation and protection and a standard setter for excellence in wildlife rehabilitation. It was a great pleasure to sit down and talk with her about achieving excellence, maintaining high standards over time, mentoring those who are new to the field of wildlife rehabilitation and keeping oneself healthy and sane despite the stress, sorrow and trauma that are an inescapable part of this work. Pour yourself a mug of chamomile and settle in for a long chat with Veronica Bowers!
New Wild Review vol 3 ep 1 “Save a logger, shoot an owl”
Thursday, May 26, 2022 • Duration 49:42
Our latest podcast, in which we discuss treating individuals of a controversial species.
New Wild Review – the BAX podcast – new episode – Moving Forward!
Season 2 · Episode 3
Wednesday, December 22, 2021 • Duration 39:44
It's been a long time since we've had an new episode of our podcast, for a variety of reasons! Tune in to hear what they are, and join us as we move from this very challenging year to embark on our most challenging year ever!!! The year of our big move! And as always, thank you for your love of the Wild and your support of our wildlife saving work!!!
