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from the issue of April 8, 2004
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Nature of Lewis, Clark is focus of symposium
UNL’s Center for Great Plains Studies will present its 28th annual interdisciplinary symposium June 3-5 at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center in Nebraska City. The conference, “The Nature of Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains,” will recognize the naturalist work of the expedition.
Two nationally acclaimed Lewis and Clark scholars will serve as keynote speakers. John Logan Allen, chair of the geography department at the University of Wyoming, has written an account of the expedition’s geographic endeavors in his book, Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest. James L. Reveal, professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, is the nation’s most informed botanist on the Lewis and Clark Herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He has written the definitive description of the expedition’s collection and recently co-authored a book on the subject, Lewis and Clark’s Green World: The Expedition and Its Plants.
In addition, 12 scholars in six areas — botany, climatology, geology, hydrology, ornithology and zoology - will look at the expedition’s encounter with the Great Plains environment, the present situation of the region, and changes over the last two centuries. Those scholars:
• Robert Diffendal Jr. and Paul Johnsgard, UNL;
• David Galat and James Harlan, University of Missouri-Columbia;
• Kelly Kindscher, University of Kansas;
• Robert Luce, Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Prairie Dog Conservation Team, Arizona;
• Cary Mock, University of South Carolina;
• Neal Ratzlaff, retired physician, Omaha;
• James Shaw, Oklahoma State University;
• John Taylor, Montana State University;
• Jerry Vineyard, Missouri Department of Natural Resources;
• Connie Woodhouse, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, Colo.
Gary E. Moulton, Sorensen professor of history at UNL, will chair the symposium. He is a leading scholar on the Lewis and Clark expedition and has spent 20 years researching and writing about the expedition. He is the editor of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which has become a source for all other studies of the expedition.
Preregistration and a $150 conference fee is necessary to attend the symposium. The fee includes conference materials and four meals. Call the Center for Great Plains Studies at 472-3082 or visit www.unl.edu/plains/events/2004/overview.html.
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