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Lecture

Richard Reading: Transforming a Mongolian Nature Reserve from Paper Park to Model Protected Area

Date:
Time:
3:00 pm
Great Plains Art Museum Room: Main gallery
1155 Q St.
Lincoln NE 68508
Directions: 12th and Q streets
Contact:
Katie Nieland, (402) 472-3965, knieland2@unl.edu
Look at a picture of the Mongolian steppe and you’ll swear it’s the Platte River Valley in Nebraska. There are actually many similarities between the North American Great Plains and this Asian steppe, a temperate grassland covering 342,000 square miles of eastern Mongolia and stretching into China. Richard Reading, Vice President for Conservation Biology at the Denver Zoo, will speak at the Center for Great Plains Studies about his work to build a nature reserve on the Mongolian plains, an effort that may be applied to other grassland areas.

The Center for Great Plains Studies will also celebrate the release of the book “Natural Treasures of the Great Plains” — an anthology of nature- and landscape-related essays collected from Prairie Fire Newspaper —at the event. The first 50 lecture attendees will receive a free copy. Several authors featured in the book will be on hand to sign copies.

The talk, titled “Transforming a Mongolian Nature Reserve from Paper Park to Model Protected Area,” and book launch will start at 3 p.m. on May 6 at the Great Plains Art Museum in downtown Lincoln. The event is free and open to the public.

Reading is the founder of the Denver Zoo’s Department of Conservation Biology. His research interests include grasslands conservation, endangered species, conservation policy and attitudes toward conservation. He is heavily involved in the conservation of black-tailed prairie dogs. Reading earned his master’s degree in environmental studies, wildlife ecology, and philosophy and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology from Yale University.

The event is free and open to the public.

Additional Public Info:
Parking available in the Queue Place garage

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