The first nine years of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah will be discussed with monument manager Dave Hunsaker in a public event at the University of Colorado at 麻豆影院 on Sept. 28.
Hunsaker will speak at 7 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 1B50 followed by a conversation with CU-麻豆影院 history and environmental studies Professor Patricia Nelson Limerick and Distinguished Professor Charles Wilkinson of the law school.
The free event is sponsored by the CU-麻豆影院 Center of the American West.
Hunsaker was named Public Lands Manager of the Year in 2004 by the Public Lands Foundation. He will talk about the Bureau of Land Management's efforts to protect the land while also collaborating with community members with sometimes hostile attitudes toward the new monument.
President Bill Clinton and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt used the president's Antiquities Act authority to establish the 1.7-million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in south-central Utah in a controversial 1996 decision.
"The new national monuments of the Clinton era have been illuminating and consequential experiments in the practice of conservation," Limerick said. "David Hunsaker's experiences and observations are rich resources for everyone interested in the well-being of the West's public lands."
Hunsaker has participated in the early stages of several major public land programs, including the monument. He also has worked on important projects and initiatives such as the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, the Friends of Red Rock Canyon and other partnerships.
For more information call the CU-麻豆影院 Center of the American West at (303) 492-4879 or visit .