January 2020 Volume 62, Number 1 Katherine Edwards, Editor
The Wildlife Society SOUTHEASTERN SECTION JANUARY 2020 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 1 KATHERINE EDWARDS, EDITOR PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS together and tackling some major conservation challenges during this decade. I also believe 2020, we made it! We began the 2010s with the TWS can serve as the hub of our group effort, big bang of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill fol- facilitating communication among members, lowed by the rise and fall of annual mean tem- and encouraging partnerships. peratures, the first total solar eclipse in North America since President Woodrow Wilson, the As part of this belief, I would like to remind you end of NASA’s Space Shuttle era, and the rise of that we, the Executive Board of the Southeast- the iPhone with the phase out of the Blackberry. ern Section of The Wildlife Society are here to Meanwhile, we continued to observe rapid urban serve you, our membership. Reach out, contact expansion, wildlife habitat loss and degradation, us, contact your fellow members, however you exotic species explosions, species loss and the feel it’s best to get your question addressed or continued pattern of information overload de- to start your research and management team to spite substantial knowledge gaps. So, what can smite a current conservation challenge. Second, we do about it! let’s try to improve our communication as a Sec- tion. We can converse face-to-face, email, call, I’m only an elected member of a subunit of The Tweet, Instagram, Snapchat, DM, etc. However, Wildlife Society! So, for the love of wild places we often fail to communicate.
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