http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/materials/specoll/sage_meets_the_sky.aspx

To enhance your enjoyment of Where the Sage Meets the Sky: Great Basin Landscapes, a series of free "Sagebrush Conversations" will be available in February and March 2012. Below is the schedule for each of the talks. All talks take place in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center's Faculty and Graduate Reading Room located on the 4th floor. Complimentary parking is available directly across from the Knowledge Center in the Brian Whalen Parking Garage.

Planning to attend? RSVPs are preferred due to limited seating. Please call (775) 682-5665 or email Jacque Sundstrand (jsund@unr.edu). Thank you!

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Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 7:00 p.m.

"Water Politics in Northern Nevada"
Leah Wilds, UNR Professor, Political Science

Based on her 2010 book Water Politics in Northern Nevada, Leah will cover some of the historical efforts to promote irrigation and other water projects in our arid northern Nevada region, and discuss their contemporary effects.

"Nevada’s Environmental Legacy"
James W. Hulse, UNR Professor of History Emeritus

Jim will share his views on the effects and consequences that settlement, economics and politics has had on the Nevada landscape through his recent (2009) book Nevada's Environmental Legacy: Progress or Plunder.