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Anyone interested in ecology, forests, grasslands, many other aspects of nature, and good writing might be interested in the following event: SAINT MARY’S READING SERIES WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12th, 7:00 PM THE ATRIUM, Room 101 5940 INGLIS ST. (free parking on campus after 6:00 p.m.) DON GAYTON Don Gayton is one of Canada’s most valued and accomplished nature writers. He currently lives in Summerland, B.C., as a self-employed consultant in grassland and dry forest ecology, grazing management, fire ecology, ecological restoration, farming/ranching liaison, vegetation monitoring/mapping, invasive plants, and species at risk. In the past he worked for the B.C. Ministry of Forests and Range and the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture. After growing up in California and Washington State, he spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Columbia and later moved to Canada as a draft dodger. He also lived and worked in New Mexico, Mexico, Yugoslavia, and Germany. He was editor of the Journal of Ecosystems and Management. His first book, The Wheatgrass Mechanism: Science and Imagination in the Western Canadian Landscape (1990), was followed by Landscapes of the Interior: Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit (1996), Kokanee: The Redfish and the Kootenay Bio-region (2002), Interwoven With the Wild: An Ecologist Loose in His Garden (2008), and, an innovative crossbreeding of non-fiction and fiction, Man Facing West (2010). He has been honored with the US National Outdoor Book Award, the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Non-fiction Award, and the Canadian Science Writer’s Award. “In the last century,” Gayton has written, “the physicists interpreted science for the public; in this next beleaguered century, we ecologists will get our turn.” For more information, consult: http://dongayton.ca/
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