Interesting - From Morris Arboretum: Morris Arboretum’s Weekday Lecture Series, Connections Beyond Our Garden - Talks on People, Plants and Place Returns this October Now in its fifth year, Morris Arboretums Connections Beyond Our Garden - Talks on People, Plants and Place was designed to present wide ranging topics intended to create a deeper and broader understanding of our natural world beyond gardens. Since then Connections programs have covered diverse subjects including public art along Kelly Drive, Thomas Jefferson the naturalist, the wilds of Alaska, plant collecting in China, John J. Audubons final adventure out west, Grounds for Sculpture in NJ and the delicate balance of nature in the Chesapeake Bay. This fall, three new speakers will continue the tradition of mixing it up with interesting and entertaining presentations at the Morris Arboretum, with one lecture each month on October 22, November 19 and December 10. All will be held at 2pm the Widener Visitor Center. ‘Connections’ kicks off on Wednesday, October 22 with John W. Fitzpatrick, The Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, presenting Birds Can Save the World. This illustrated lecture emphasizes the vital roles that birds play in fostering conservation of worldwide biological diversity. Importantly, birds represent our most accessible and sensitive indicators of environmental health and ecological change. As Fitzpatrick recently noted in his piece in the August 29, 2014 NY Times Sunday review, Saving Our Birds, “Perhaps the most significant conclusion is a simple validation: Timely conservation action really does work, even for species that have reached alarmingly low numbers.” Today, thanks to technology and individual citizens, we now have a genuine revolution in how we visualize and comprehend species distributions. As a result, humans have crossed an historic threshold and now, literally, serve as worldwide biosphere sensors. Birds, both the rarest and the commonest, teach us much about human nature, environmental protection, and our opportunities for saving not just species, but also the great natural systems on planet Earth. Fitzpatrick is the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell. An expert on the Florida Scrub-Jay, he is co-author of at least six bird species new to science. The Connections Beyond Our Garden lectures are held at Morris Arboretum’s Widener Visitor Center at 2pm. A reception with refreshments will follow each talk. The cost for each lecture is $15 for Arboretum members and $20 for non-members, which includes admission to the garden. Advanced registration and payment are required. Please call 215-247-5777, ext 125 or [email protected] to make your reservation.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:09:52 +0000
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