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A Working Wilderness: A Call for a Land Health Movement
The Grassland Foundation announces the first annual lecture on "Grassland Conservation and Sustainable Communities." The purpose of the lecture series is to inform the university community and residents of the State of Nebraska about issues and current knowledge in biodiversity conservation science and policy, with particular emphasis on the conservation of grassland ecosystems and the sustainability of their human communities. Courtney White, Excutive Director of the Quivira Coalition will speak on "The Working Wilderness: A Call for a Land Health Movement" at 3:30pm on Thursday, April 6th at the Center for Great Plains Studies Art Museum on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus, 1155 Q Street.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Great Plain Studies (www.unl.edu/plains), the Center for Grassland Studies (www.grassland.unl.edu), the UNL School of Natural Resources (snr.unl.edu), and the Grassland Foundation.
A pre-lecture reception will begin at 3:00pm.
Courtney White is co-founder and Executive Director of The Quivira Coalition (www.quiviracoalition.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to building bridges between ranchers, conservationists, public land managers, scientists and others. We call our approach The New Ranch. Elements include progressive ranch management, scientifically-guided riparian and upland restoration, land health assessment and monitoring. The principles of The New Ranch are promoted through workshops, Outdoor Classrooms, lectures, publications, site tours, consultations, collaborative demonstration projects, awards, newsletters, and an Annual Conference.
His essay “The Working Wilderness: a Call for a Land Health Movement” was recently published in Wendell Berry's collection of essays entitled “The Way of Ignorance.” He writes a regular online column for Headwaters News, entitled “A West That Works” (www.headwatersnews.org). He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.