Academy Talk Reception

The Mead Public Library Foundation will host a guest speaker from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters this evening in the library's Rocca Meeting Room from 7 to 8:30 p.m. A reception will be held in The Loft beginning at 6 p.m.

Curt Meine is a conservation biologist and writer based in Sauk County. He serves as Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the Center for Humans and Nature, and as Adjunct Associate Professor at UW–Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. Meine served as on-screen guide in the Emmy Award-winning documentary film Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time (2011) and edited the Library of America’s definitive collection, Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac and Other Essays on Ecology and Conservation (2013). Meine was the project coordinator for the Wisconsin Academy's first Waters of Wisconsin Initiative, and serves as advisor for the second iteration as well. He is a founder and member of the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance in Sauk County.

Program Title: “The Waters of Wisconsin: Sustaining Our Aquatic Ecosystems and Resources”

Description: The waters of Wisconsin face both growing threats and expanding opportunities for careful stewardship. At every point along the way in the great revolving cycle of Wisconsin’s water, people—you and I—make decisions that determine how our waters are used, protected, managed, bought and sold, regulated, fished, studied, monitored, valued, and appreciated. We make those water decisions based on a variety of factors and forces: our laws, our science, the local and global economy, and the ever-evolving marketplace. We also make those decisions based on the traditions in our families and the standards in our communities; on the respect of our neighbors and the priorities of our culture; on our sense of beauty and our values and ethics. Our attentions are often focused on specific water issues only when they make headlines or become contentious. In this presentation, we’ll explore how we can build the long-term foundations for healthy water resources and resilient aquatic ecosystems—for sustaining the waters of Wisconsin that sustain us.

Registration is requested here. http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/evenings/waters-wisconsin-sustaining-our-aquatic-ecosystems