Dr. Curt Meine Presentation
April 14, 2022 7:30-9PM
Land Ethics Evolving: Conservation in a Time of Rapid Social and Environmental Change
April 14 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm at the Illinois State University Brown Ballroom (Bone Student Center, 200 N. University)
FREE
Join us for this presentation by Aldo Leopold scholar Dr. Curt Meine, a renowned conservationist and environmental historian. Aldo Leopold, who was an internationally recognized conservationist and ecologist, is widely considered the father of wildlife ecology. During his lifetime Leopold published over 500 works. He is best-known for A Sand County Almanac, which is a collection of 41 essays published posthumously. Leopold composed his landmark essay “The Land Ethic” in 1948, during a time of change and crisis in conservation and in the world. But Leopold also realized that “nothing so important as an ethic is ever ‘written.’” It must evolve continually to meet changing conditions and accommodate new understanding. We live now in a time of social and environmental changes that are complex, interrelated, and accelerating. How can we orient ourselves and our movements for change amid these rapidly shifting realities? The next generation of conservationists faces tremendous challenges and opportunities in answering that question, and in contributing to the further evolution of a guiding ethic.