"On Word for Wildlife," a podcast hosted by Tykee James, explores the nexus between wildlife conservation and politics. He brings his professional insights spanning over a decade in environmental education, public policy, and storytelling. In each episode, Tykee elevates more perspectives on wildlife conservation, while bringing the topic to a broader audience in hopes of contributing meaningfully to the global discourse on conservation politics.
Now a product of Wildlife Media Collaborative (formerly Wildlife Observer Network)
What to Expect When You're Expecting to Go Extinct
The Endangered Species Act: An Introduction and Explanation
What is endangered? How do you get on the list? Have you watched Sex and the City?
Endangered Species Act - House: https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/house-bill/37 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/house-bill/37)
Endangered Species Act - Senate: https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/senate-bill/1983/all-actions?s=6&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22endangered+Species+Act%22%7D (https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/senate-bill/1983/all-actions?s=6&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22endangered+Species+Act%22%7D)
Rep. John Dingell Retirement: https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/nrdcs-president-dingell-giant-who-safeguarded-our-environment-and-health (https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/nrdcs-president-dingell-giant-who-safeguarded-our-environment-and-health)
Evolution to ESA: https://www.fws.gov/esa50/our-history/pre-1973 (https://www.fws.gov/esa50/our-history/pre-1973)
https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ESA-Section-4-Listing.pdf (https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ESA-Section-4-Listing.pdf)
ESA designation definitions: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-differences-between-endangered-threatened-imperiled-and-risk-species#:~:text=Under%20the%20Endangered%20Species%20Act,endangered%20within%20the%20foreseeable%20future (https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-differences-between-endangered-threatened-imperiled-and-risk-species#:~:text=Under%20the%20Endangered%20Species%20Act,endangered%20within%20the%20foreseeable%20future).
Puetro RicanSharp Shinned Hawk: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sharp-shinned_Hawk/lifehistory (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sharp-shinned_Hawk/lifehistory)
5-year status review Puerto Rican Sharp Shinned Hawk:
https://ecosphere-documents-production-public.s3.amazonaws.com/sams/public_docs/species_nonpublish/5787.pdf (https://ecosphere-documents-production-public.s3.amazonaws.com/sams/public_docs/species_nonpublish/5787.pdf)
Rusty Patch Bumble Bee on Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/25/2024-01454/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-90-day-findings-for-10-species (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/01/25/2024-01454/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-90-day-findings-for-10-species)
Minnesota and the Rusty Patch Bumble Bee: https://bwsr.state.mn.us/l2l (https://bwsr.state.mn.us/l2l)
ESA Loophole: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1320&context=jesl (https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1320&context=jesl)
Definition of Habitat: https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2022-06/rescind-regulatory-definition-habitat-under-endangered-species-act (https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2022-06/rescind-regulatory-definition-habitat-under-endangered-species-act)
Changes to Endangered Speices Act: https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/state/washington/article305258441.html (https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/state/washington/article305258441.html)
Federal Register:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/17/2025-06746/rescinding-the-definition-of-harm-under-the-endangered-species-act (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/17/2025-06746/rescinding-the-definition-of-harm-under-the-endangered-species-act)
Grizzly Bear: https://www.fws.gov/species/grizzly-bear-ursus-arctos-horribilis (https://www.fws.gov/species/grizzly-bear-ursus-arctos-horribilis)
Grizzly Court Ruling: https://earthjustice.org/press/2009/protections-restored-for-yellowstone-grizzly-bears (https://earthjustice.org/press/2009/protections-restored-for-yellowstone-grizzly-bears)
Endangered Grizzly: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/grizzly_bear/# (https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/grizzly_bear/#)
Gray Wolf ESA Listing: https://wolf.org/wolf-info/51811-2/ (https://wolf.org/wolf-info/51811-2/)
Gray Wolf: https://www.fws.gov/species/gray-wolf-canis-lupus (https://www.fws.gov/species/gray-wolf-canis-lupus)
Bringing back the Wolly Mammouth: https://colossal.com/mammoth/ (https://colossal.com/mammoth/)
Passenger Pigeon: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/passenger-pigeon (https://www.si.edu/spotlight/passenger-pigeon)
Black-browned babbler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-browed_babbler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-browed_babbler)
Not extinct stick insect: https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/lord-howe-island-stick-insect/ (https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/lord-howe-island-stick-insect/)
https://earthjustice.org/article/how-trump-and-congress-are-trying-to-gut-the-endangered-species-act-and-what-you-can-do-about-it (https://earthjustice.org/article/how-trump-and-congress-are-trying-to-gut-the-endangered-species-act-and-what-you-can-do-about-it)
21 Jul 2026
New Year, Same Neonics
Looking into Colorado's effort to limit the use of neonicotinoids (or neonics) on commodity cropland farms, where they happen to be very popular. Who will think of the bees!?
Policy on the Prowl: SB26-065
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References:
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-065 (https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-065)
https://ag.colorado.gov/pesticide-safety (https://ag.colorado.gov/pesticide-safety)
https://content.leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/r23-286_agricultural_economy_in_colorado_0.pdf (https://content.leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/r23-286_agricultural_economy_in_colorado_0.pdf)
https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/benefits-neonicotinoid-seed-treatments-soybean-production (https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/benefits-neonicotinoid-seed-treatments-soybean-production)
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/pesticides-are-transported-throughout-environment (https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/pesticides-are-transported-throughout-environment)
https://soybeans.ces.ncsu.edu/soybean-insect-pest-management/ (https://soybeans.ces.ncsu.edu/soybean-insect-pest-management/)
https://www.farmprogress.com/soybean/stinkbugs-top-nationwide-soybean-pest-damage-list-causing-estimated-126-million-bushel-loss-in-2024 (https://www.farmprogress.com/soybean/stinkbugs-top-nationwide-soybean-pest-damage-list-causing-estimated-126-million-bushel-loss-in-2024)
https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2015/08/24/entomologists-sniff-out-new-stink-bug-to-help-soybean-farmers-control-damage/ (https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2015/08/24/entomologists-sniff-out-new-stink-bug-to-help-soybean-farmers-control-damage/)
Neonicotinoid Pesticides in Colorado Water: Threats to the State’s Aquatic Ecosystems, Pierre Menau, Ph.D., July 2025 (https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/neonicotinoid-pesticides-in-colorado-water-threats-to-the-states-aquatic-ecosystems.pdf)
Bigger than Bees: How Neonics Contaminate Water, Threaten Ecosystems, and Cause Human Health Concerns in New York (https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/bigger-than-bees-neonics-new-york-report.pdf)
First national-scale reconnaissance of neonicotinoid insecticides in streams across the USA, Michelle Hladik, Dana W. Kolpin, 2015 (https://ca.water.usgs.gov/pubs/2015/HladikKolpin2015.pdf)
American Bird Conservancy, “Birds & Neonic-Coated Seeds”. 2022 (https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Neonic-Fact-Sheet-_11.18.2022-1.pdf)
American Bird Conservancy, “Birds & Neonic-Coated Seeds: The Hidden Costs of High-Risk Pesticides, 2024 (https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ABC-Birds-and-Neonic-Seeds-IG.pdf)
https://wms.org/magazine/magazine/1614/Seeds-of-Destruction/default.aspx (https://wms.org/magazine/magazine/1614/Seeds-of-Destruction/default.aspx)
https://www.hppr.org/hppr-news/2026-03-04/effort-to-restrict-colorado-farmers-use-of-seeds-coated-with-pesticides-rejected-in-committee (https://www.hppr.org/hppr-news/2026-03-04/effort-to-restrict-colorado-farmers-use-of-seeds-coated-with-pesticides-rejected-in-committee)
https://leg.colorado.gov/committee_meeting_hearing_items/29477/votes/42452 (https://leg.colorado.gov/committee_meeting_hearing_items/29477/votes/42452)
https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/state-legislation (https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/state-legislation)
22 Apr 2025
The Future of LWCF
Part 3 in the 3 part series of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
In this episode, I’ll provide a review of the programs listed under the Land and Water Conservation Fund and discuss some of the limitations before sharing some complicated predictions for the future.
Spoiler: If the future seems bright, you're the deer in the headlights.
Report: Tribal Access to the Land and Water Conservation Fund: https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/Tribal%20Access%20to%20the%20LWCF.pdf (https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/Tribal%20Access%20to%20the%20LWCF.pdf)
Outer Continental Shelf definition: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1331&num=0&edition=prelim (https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1331&num=0&edition=prelim)
Biden banning offshore oil and gas: https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/06/biden-offshore-drilling-ban-oil-gas/ (https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/06/biden-offshore-drilling-ban-oil-gas/)
Mineral Leasing Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGUBxgz_6Ak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGUBxgz_6Ak)
LWCF Manual: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/lwcf/lwcf-manual.htm (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/lwcf/lwcf-manual.htm)
Federal, State, Tribe Government Relations: https://www.ncsl.org/about-state-legislatures/separation-of-powers-state-tribal-relations-and-interstate-compacts (https://www.ncsl.org/about-state-legislatures/separation-of-powers-state-tribal-relations-and-interstate-compacts)
LWCF recommendations from Tribes: https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/needed-federal-conservation-program-designed-tribes (https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/needed-federal-conservation-program-designed-tribes)
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