Location
Orange Beach, AL
Start Date
27-2-2017 9:30 AM
Description
In 1965, Bob Dylan released a song called “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”, and it contained one of the decade’s most memorable lyrics – “He not busy being born is busy dying” (Dylan 1965). At the same time sobering and hopeful, the lyrics present purposeful rebirth as the salve for what otherwise would do us in. Wildlife damage management as a profession has been busy being born for decades. The work is bound to human values and communities, social and political priorities, scientific advancements, and landscape and wildlife population changes. Our profession cannot help but evolve.
Recommended Citation
Bucknall, Janet L., "Busy Being Born : Embracing Change in Wildlife Damage Management" (2017). Wildlife Damage Management Conference. 1.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wdmconference/2017/plenary/1
Busy Being Born : Embracing Change in Wildlife Damage Management
Orange Beach, AL
In 1965, Bob Dylan released a song called “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”, and it contained one of the decade’s most memorable lyrics – “He not busy being born is busy dying” (Dylan 1965). At the same time sobering and hopeful, the lyrics present purposeful rebirth as the salve for what otherwise would do us in. Wildlife damage management as a profession has been busy being born for decades. The work is bound to human values and communities, social and political priorities, scientific advancements, and landscape and wildlife population changes. Our profession cannot help but evolve.