Dr. Randy Simpson: A Life Among the Wild Others — Part Two

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In Part One of my conversation with Dr. Randy Simpson, we talked about the experiences that shaped him as a naturalist and wildlife biologist. In Part Two, we follow where that life took him and what he learned along the way. Sitting beside the fire at Randy’s Cottonwood Farm in Gonzales County, our conversation moves through his early professional career, work on a South Texas ranch, and eventual return to Texas State University as a teacher and researcher. But this part of our conversation increasingly becomes about something larger than a career. Randy and I talk about the importance of getting students out of classrooms and into the field, learning directly from landowners and the…