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Famed outdoor writer s journals found in old refrigerator to be published soon

Famed outdoor writer s journals found in old refrigerator to be published soon
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Acclaimed plant ecologist to headline virtual lectureship

In the world of plant ecology and conservation, Robin Wall Kimmerer is considered a rock star. She is also the featured speaker of the 2021 Marcia Monroe Conery Lectureship Series sponsored by the Tulane University Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Kimmerer, a world-renowned professor, speaker and author of acclaimed books on humanity’s relationship to nature, will speak via Zoom Friday, Feb. 26 from 11 a.m. to noon. Her talk is titled “What Does the Earth Ask of Us.” To register, click here. Kimmerer is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at SUNY and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, which creates sustainability programs that draw on the wisdom of indigenous and scientific knowledge.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer to give 2021 Spencer Lecture for The Commons

Mon, 01/25/2021 LAWRENCE Acclaimed writer, professor and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer will give the 2021 Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture at 7 p.m. April 1. The event will be broadcast live. A member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer is known for the universal teachings offered in her 2015 book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants. She is an SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, where she is the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of indigenous and scientific knowledge to offer lessons for humanity. Kimmerer’s first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and it explores systems and communities of different moss species, sharing observations of these tiny creatures that can teach humans about their own p

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Barry Lopez, Lyrical Writer Who Was Likened to Thoreau, Dies at 75

Barry Lopez, Lyrical Writer Who Was Likened to Thoreau, Dies at 75
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Winnebago County Conservation Starts a Book Club

AJ TaylorDecember 28, 2020Last Updated: February 28, 2021 If you’re looking for something to do during the long, cold nights of winter, especially now that Covid is keeping many people indoors, you might want to consider joining the Winnebago County Conservation Board’s Book Club! The first meeting will be over Zoom on Saturday morning, February 27 th, from 10:00-11:00 AM. The book that the club will be reading this winter is Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, first published in 1949. Aldo Leopold was born in Iowa in 1887 and was a conservationist, forester, philosopher, educator, writer, and outdoor enthusiast. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service, became an expert in the new field of wildlife management, and eventually became known as the “Father of Wildlife Ecology.”

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