Baldwinisms

When I gave my master's thesis defense about using vernacular conservation methods to elicit conservation values I started by sharing the Baldwinisms that I collected from my advisor and mentor, Dr. Betty Baldwin. They're listed below as a good reminder of how a conservation social scientist does their work.
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• Conservation is a social value
• When looking at a conservation area, look at boundaries in and boundaries out
• You’ve got to start by putting lines on a map
• 2 step criteria: 1. determine the inevitable, 2. figure out how to take advantage of it
• As a conservation social scientist your best friend better be a natural scientist
• Parks aren’t loved to death, they’re mismanaged to death
• Good use drives out bad
• Make sure you park downhill on the project
• Buttress Research – research things that you don’t think you’ll need
• Easy as falling off a log
• Don’t abdicate your responsibility
• Don’t do interdisciplinary work with a stapler
• As conservationists, how do we change things? We tell people what to do. What do people hate? Being told what to do.
• Conservation is a crisis discipline
• Conservation can only occur locally
• Get on that boat, ride that river
• Big E ethic and little e ethic -> if there is no big E you get swamped by a lot of little e’s (same thing with planning -> without a big P, you’ll get swamped by a lot of little p’s)
• There’s the plan on the desk and the plan in the drawer