Naming the Nameless: Blaming the Blameless: Divining the American Wild
Tuesday, 22 Feb 2005 at 10:45 am – Sun Room, Memorial Union
This panel is part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination will explore American perspectives on "the wild:" Stephen Pett, English, ISU (Moderator); Julia Badenhope, Landscape Architecture, and Natural Resource Ecology and Management, ISU; James A. Pritchard, Landscape Architecture, and Natural Resource Ecology and Management, author of Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions and co-author of A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century; Sidner Larson, Director of the American Indian Studies Program, ISU, author of Catch Colt and Captured in the Middle; Ray Young Bear, author of Black Eagle Child, Remnants of the First Earth, and The Rock Island Hiking Club.
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