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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE August
5, 2008 Purdue
Speaker Series Hits Home with “Nature Preserves” Seminar Nature
preservation will be the focus of the third installment of the Go with the
Flow-- Get to Know Our Indiana Coastal Resources seminar series on
Wednesday, August 13 at 6:30 p.m. at Purdue University Calumet. In
his seminar entitled “Managing Nature Preserves in a Fragmented Landscape,”
Paul Labus, Northwest Indiana region director of the Nature Conservancy, will
discuss the effects of a highly industrialized landscape, such as the Calumet
region, on the ecological processes that create and sustain native
biodiversity. He will address the inherent problems in managing highly
fragmented preserves and offer potential solutions. Labus
is also the program director for the Nature Conservancy Southern Lake Michigan
Rim Project Office. He and his office work with a variety of partners to help
protect the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and other natural areas throughout
Northwest Indiana. The
Go with the Flow seminar series is intended raise awareness
of land use practices on Lake Michigan’s coastal resources in Indiana. Upcoming
seminars in the series are:
The series
is being funded through a grant Purdue Calumet received from the Lake Michigan
Coastal Program. Other sponsors are Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant and the Indiana
Department of Natural Resources. The
seminar series will take place at the Calumet Conference Center. For
directions, go to www.calumet.purdue.edu/thecenter.
For any additional information, contact Leslie Dorworth, Illinois-Indiana Sea
Grant aquatic ecology specialist, at 219-989-2726 or
dorworth@calumet.purdue.edu. --30-- The
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program is one of 30 National Sea Grant
College Programs. Created by Congress in 1966, Sea Grant combines university,
government, business and industry expertise to address coastal and Great Lakes
needs. Funding is provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National
Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the University of Illinois and Purdue
University. Irene
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