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Richard Reading Ph.D
Director of Conservation Biology for the Denver Zoological Foundation
Richard Reading, Ph.D., Director of Conservation Biology for the Denver Zoological Foundation, spoke at the Great Plains Art Museum Thursday, January 27, 2005, on the “Human and Ecological Dimensions of Prairie Dog Conservation.” Dr. Reading received a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from Yale University in 1993, after completing a dissertation on recovery of the
endangered black-footed ferret. He is an Associate Research Professor in the Biology Department at Denver University and an Affiliate Faculty Member at Colorado State University and the University of Montana. Dr. Reading focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to grasslands conservation and has worked on grassland conservation on four continents. He is the author of over 125 technical and non-technical papers and books on wildlife conservation and is an EarthWatch project leader in Mongolia, doing research on argali sheep, wild Bactrian camels, cinereous vultures, and small carnivores. Dr. Reading's lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies and the Grassland Foundation.