Leopold Live: Dark Sky Conservation
Leopold Live! is back with Chapter Two, Episode 20 - Dark Sky Conservation with special guests Philip Walker and Cindy Luongo Cassidy from DarkSky Texas. Leopold Live! began as a live-streaming seminar series conducted in partnership with the Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve (Bamberger) to demonstrate to natural resource students, landowners and wildlife enthusiasts the original 5 creative methods conceptualized by Aldo Leopold in the 1930s to effectively manage game and therefore conserve wildlife ecology. The series builds on “the central thesis of game management is this: game can be restored by the creative use of the same tools which have heretofore destroyed it—axe, plow, cow, fire, and gun.”
Each month we are joined by Bamberger ranch staff and experts in the field to explore and demonstrate each of Leopold's five tools and to give viewers tangible practices that they can implement out in the field.
Tune in here to ask questions, connect and learn about these essential tools for wildlife habitat management on your property.
Resources:
DarkSky Texas: https://darkskytexas.org/
DarkSky International: https://darksky.org/
Light Temperature Scale: https://eit.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/u...
Sea turtles and dark skies: https://darksky.org/resources/guides-...
Sky glow: https://skyglowproject.com/#new-page
Dung beetle navigation: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/...
Birds and night navigation: https://darksky.org/news/what-you-sho...
Lights Out Texas Program: https://tx.audubon.org/urbanconservat...
Frogs and calling: https://darksky.org/news/5-species-th...
Firefly Atlas: https://www.fireflyatlas.org/
Night-time pollinators: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Circadian rhythm: https://nigms.nih.gov/education/fact-...
Blue light health effects: https://www.health.harvard.edu/stayin...
Leopold and woodcocks: https://www.audubon.org/news/do-yours...
Glossy snakes and dark skies: https://undark.org/2022/07/18/for-cre...
Crime and lighting: https://darksky.org/resources/what-is...
Lumens: https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/lu...
Light trespass: https://darksky.org/resources/what-is...
5 principles of responsible outdoor lighting: https://darksky.org/resources/guides-...
Energy wasted by lights: https://darksky.org/app/uploads/2023/...
Dark sky places in Texas map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie...
Dark sky state parks: https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/pa...
BE A STAR Award: https://darkskytexas.org/be-a-star-aw...
Online learning from DarkSky Texas: https://darkskytexas.org/online-learn...