“We don't want Idaho to have a bad reputation. This is our home state. We love our home state. It's beautiful. We pride ourselves on our nature. We pride ourselves on our wildlife. And instead, we are continuing to do things that are… that are sickening.” - Ella Driever In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to central Idaho, and in 2003 a Boise High school called Timberline officially adopted a local wolf pack. Throughout the 2000, students went on wolf tracking trips and in their wolf packs range. But in 2021, Idaho's legislature passed Senate Bill 1211, 1211 allows Idaho hunters to obtain an unlimited number of wolf tags, and it also allows Idaho's Department of Fish and Game to use taxpayer dollars to pay private contractors to kill wolves. That means bounties on wolves, including on public lands. And in 2021, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission expanded the wolf hunting season and hunting and trapping methods. So it's not too surprising to learn that also in 2021, the Timberline pack disappeared. The students, the ones that cared about wolves, at least, were devastated. Last summer I went to D.C. with some of the Species Unite team for a wolf rally on Capitol Hill. While I was there, two young women gave a talk about what happened at Timberline in 2021. Their names are Ella Driver and Sneha Sharma. They both graduated from Timberline High School and were there when their wolf pack disappeared. Please, listen and share.…
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In the third podcast of the introductory series, The Academic Engineer discusses how civil/structural engineering is the key to academic success. He further talks about how the design concept of a suspension bridge can be translated as a guide to engage family, school, and community to achieve academic and long-range career goals.…
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Podcast 2: Five Things About Academics That May Not Be Accurate
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13:46The Academic Engineer discusses five things about education and/or academics that may not be entirely accurate if you look beneath the surface. He talks about how the SAT test is just like the NFL combine. He also talks about an academic discovery from Malcolm Gladwell's book "David and Goliath" and questions whether if the bigger school is best fo…
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Jerome McQueen, the Academic Engineer introduces the Achieving Academic Success Pocast. He discussess how the rise in tuition cost has outgained the rise in salaries and offer strategies to reduce the cost of college. He also discusses that the mission of this podcast is to provide information to obtain marketable skills for the least cost possible…
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