Back when I used to teach general biology classes to college students, in my opening lecture I always told them that if their main motivation is to work in the service of conservation then they should become environmental lawyers, not wildlife biologists. There's been no better environmental lawyer for them to emulate than Joseph Sax:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/us/jo ... .html?_r=0
Gerry
The environment has lost a great champion, but not his work
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