Cd'A library's wilderness series starts today
COEUR d'ALENE - The Coeur d'Alene Public Library has scheduled four more programs on the theme of "Wilderness Considered," starting today, and continuing the first three Wednesdays in June.
The series was developed by the Idaho Humanities Council in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Wilderness Act. All programs begin at 7 p.m. in the Community Room at the library.
Presentations include:
* May 21- University of Idaho English Professor Jennifer Ladino, a former Grand Teton National Park Ranger and a specialist in environmental literature, will lead discussion about how humans interact with wilderness, and will explore several short works by Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, and others.
* June 4 - University of Idaho history professor Adam Sowards, an environmental historian and author of several books on North American environmental history, will talk about how wilderness has been managed and impacted by legislation and public policy. He will explore several short works by such writers as Aldo Leopold, Wallace Stegner, and Benjamin Johnson, as well as the text of the 1964 Wilderness Act Legislation itself.
* June 11 - University of Idaho English professor Jennifer Ladino will return to discuss what it means on a personal level to venture into wilderness by leading discussion of the book "Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness," a memoir by Montana writer Pete Fromm.
* June 18 - University of Idaho environmental literature professor Scott Slovic, author and editor of more than a dozen books on environmental history, literature, and public policy, will wrap up the series by exploring contemporary wilderness policy and issues impacting Idaho, such as legislation that created Idaho's Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness Initiative, controversy surrounding the more recently proposed Boulder-White Clouds Monument in south-central Idaho, and the politics of wilderness designation.
For more information about the series or to review the syllabus of readings, contact Librarian David Townsend at 769-2315, or [email protected]. Townsend has some texts available on loan for participants to read in advance of the sessions.