Mountain Home, Prairie Home: Learning New Languages
James Pritchard
Monday, 19 Feb 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
James Pritchard is an adjunct assistant professor at Iowa State with appointments in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management and the Department of Landscape Architecture. He is the author of Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature, coauthor of A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century, and coauthor of A Field Guide to Butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Pritchard's research interests start with environmental history and include science in the national parks, the history of animal ecology, the history of wildlife in North America, and the foundations of natural resource policy and management. He has a Ph.D. in environmental history and the history of science from the University of Kansas. Part of the Third Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Creative Imagination.Cosponsored By:
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Creative Writing Program
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