On Friday, March 14, the weekly Fireside Lecture will feature Dr. Cathy Connor, professor of geology at the University of Alaska Southeast Natural Science Department. The lecture will focus on the ancient trees discovered recently that melted out of the ice as the Mendenhall Glacier receded. Fireside Lectures are sponsored by the USDA Forest Service at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. The presentations are free and occur at 6:30 p.m. Fridays with a repeat at 8 p.m...more
Not to be outdone by BLM's Artists-in-residence program, the Forest Service has their Fireside Lecture. I wonder if they have a quota on the number of lectures?
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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