Lessons from the Past for a Sustainable Future

Date/Time:	Thursday, 06 Mar 2014 at 7:00 pm
Location:	Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
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"The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon: Lessons from the Past for a Sustainable Future," Dr. Stanley Temple. Temple's talk marks the centennial of the extinction of the passenger pigeon in 1914. He uses the passenger pigeon to call attention to the world's ongoing extinction crisis and our relationship with other species.

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Stanley Temple is a Senior Fellow and Science Advisor with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. For more than thirty years he was the Beers-Bascom Professor in Conservation in the Department of Wildlife Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.