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2023 Barkalow Distinguished Conservationist Lecture: Coloring the Conservation Conversation

September 25, 2023

2023 Barkalow Distinguished Conservationist Lecture: Coloring the Conservation Conversation

September 25, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Frederick and Joan Barkalow Distinguished Conservationist Lecture is pleased to host ornithologist, naturalist, writer and friend to NCWF, Dr. Drew Lanham. The public is invited to attend this free event online or in-person at N.C. State University in Raleigh, NC.

Join the College of Natural Resources and the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology as Dr. Drew Lanham of Clemson University discusses what it means to embrace the full breadth of his African-American heritage and his deep kinship to nature and adoration of birds. The convergence of ornithologist, college professor, poet, author and conservation activist blend to bring our awareness of the natural world and our moral responsibility for it forward in new ways. Candid by nature — and because of it — Lanham will examine how conservation must be a rigorous science and evocative art, inviting diversity and race to play active roles in celebrating our natural world.
A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. Most recently, he is the author of Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts. He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry in publications including Orion, Audubon, Flycatcher, and Wilderness, and in several anthologies, including The Colors of Nature, State of the Heart, Bartram’s Living Legacy, and Carolina Writers at Home. Lanham is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. An Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University, he and his family live in the Upstate of South Carolina, a soaring hawk’s downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall.
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Organizer: North Carolina State University

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