The Future of Conservation in America with Busboys and Poets Books
Date and Time
Jul 17, 2018 6:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Jul 17, 2018 6:30 pm
14th & V
A Chart for Rough Water (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Written with Jon Jarvis, the eighteenth director of the National Park Service, this candid and caring book about conservation has been described by Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist E.O. Wilson as “a call to action written with authority and passion†and by President Jimmy Carter as “a course for a new generation of conservation action and leadership.†Terry Tempest Williams, who wrote the forward for the book, calls it “a clarion call for citizen engagement…a visionary pragmatism that is clear, concise, and prescriptive.†Dr. Machlis will discuss contemporary conservation politics and the new book, and sign copies during the event.
The co-sponsor for this event is the University of Chicago Press, publisher of The Future of Conservation in America.Â
About the author: Dr. Gary Machlis is University Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Clemson University, and served as Science Advisor to the Director of the National Park Service during both terms of the Obama administration. In addition to working throughout the US National Park System, Dr. Machlis has worked in China on giant panda protection, on conservation and sustainability issues in the Galápagos Islands, Kenya, Cuba, Haiti, and in Eastern Europe. He lives in Central, South Carolina.
