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September 23, 2008
Former U.S. Forest Service chief and professor of global conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Michael Dombeck will discuss the Lake Baikal region of Siberia-its land, waters, people, and culture-with comparison to Lake Superior in "A Tale of Two Lakes: Superior and Baikal," on Friday, September 26 at Northland College. The presentation will be held in the Alvord Theatre in the Ponzio Campus Center beginning at 7 p.m. and will be open to the public free of charge. It is part of the Academy Evening series sponsored by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.
A native of Wisconsin, Dombeck is a professor of global environmental management and a UW-System fellow of global conservation at the College of Natural Resources at UWSP. He is the only person to have led the nation's two largest land management agencies, the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The New York Times described him as the most conservation-minded Forest Service chief in the over one-hundred years since the service's first chief, Gifford Pinchot. Dombeck's legacy is one of steadfast stewardship for the land. For his lifelong career in public service, he received the highest award in federal service, the Presidential Rank-Distinguished Executive Award. He has authored and edited over 200 publications.
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters regularly sponsors Academy Evenings in the Overture Center in Madison and at other venues across the state. These free forums engage the public in a wide variety of topics of public interest and feature Wisconsin's leading thinkers, scholars, and artists. Academy Evenings are intended to encourage public interaction with these leaders in an intimate atmosphere designed to foster discussion and build community.
This presentation also is sponsored by the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, the Madison Community Foundation, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Evjue Foundation, M&I Bank, the John and Sally Mielke Family Fund, and a number of individual donors. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.
The nonprofit Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, founded in 1870, connects people and ideas from all areas of knowledge and all walks of life to advance thought and culture in our state. The Wisconsin Academy's many programs include the James Watrous Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts, a galley by and for Wisconsin artists; Wisconsin People & Ideas, our quarterly magazine about Wisconsin thought and culture; public forums such as the Academy Evenings series; and The Wisconsin Idea, a public policy program. For more information on our programs and events, please visit http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/.
