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SMITH
NATURE SYMPOSIUM 2008
The Great Lakes Water Wars
Saturday,
May 10th
Benefit
Dinner, Silent Auction and Keynote Address
Featuring Peter Annin,
Author of The Great Lakes Water Wars
Join
Friends of Ryerson Woods
for another exciting and informative Smith Nature Symposium
on May 10, 2008.Held annually since 1983, the Smith Nature
Symposium celebrates nature and promotes environmental awareness,
on site at beautiful Ryerson Woods in Lake County, Illinois.
Begin
the evening at Brushwood with a reception among good friends
and enjoy a visit with our educational raptors. Browse the
creative selection of silent auction items. Your winning bid
supports Friends’ education and conservation programs.
An elegant dinner, live auction and a keynote address by Peter
Annin, author of The Great Lakes Water Wars, follows.
Reception
and Silent Auction: 5:30 pm
Dinner Begins: 7:00 pm
Dessert and Keynote Address: 8:15 pm
Adults only
$125 per person (includes reception, auction, dinner, keynote
address)
You may attend the keynote address without attending the benefit
dinner.
Join us for dessert (included in the ticket price); keynote
will follow.
Adults and families with children 14 years and older
$25 ($20 for Friends of Ryerson Woods members) per person
Location: Ryerson Woods, Brushwood Visitors Center
Registration and Prepayment Required
Register
online at the Lake County Forest Preserve website
or call us at 847-968-3321.
Keynote
Speaker
Peter
Annin
Author,
The Great Lakes Water Wars
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 The
Great Lakes Water Wars is considered the
definitive book on the Great Lakes water diversion controversy.
It delves into the long history of political maneuvers
and water diversion schemes that have proposed sending
Great Lakes water everywhere from Akron to Arizona to
Asia.
Annin
provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle
over Great Lakes water, as the eight Great Lake states
and two Canadian provinces try to implement an unprecedented
accord designed to protect the lakes from unwarranted
water diversions. The Great Lakes Water Wars
tells the colorful story of the on-going effort to conserve
this invaluable freshwater resource, and the book serves
as an important warning about what could happen if the
lakes are left unprotected
The
Great Lakes Water Wars received the 2007 Great
Lakes Book Award, a prestigious prize from the Great
Lakes Booksellers Association.
A
veteran conflict and environmental journalist, Peter
Annin spent more than a decade reporting on a wide variety
of issues for Newsweek. For many years he specialized
in coverage of domestic terrorism. He also covered droughts
in the Southwest, hurricanes in the Southeast, wind
power on the Great Plains, forest fires in the mountain
West, as well as the “dead zone” in the
Gulf of Mexico. |
Award
Presentation
Cameron
Davis
Friends
of Ryerson Woods
is pleased to present our annual award for leadership in conservation
to Cameron Davis. A champion of Lake Michigan for 20 years,
Davis has fought for tough water quality standards, helping
to reduce pollution from industrial and municipal waste water
discharges. Davis has worked to forge the protection of our
water resources through the Great Lakes Compact and public
awareness initiatives. Uner his leadersip, the Alliance for
the Great Lakes is a major force for environmental protection.
Featured
Exhibition
Eileen
Meindl O'Hagan
Lakviews
Chicago
artist Eileen Meindl O'Hagan expresses her rich, sensual connections
to Lake Michigan in her new series of oil paintings entitled
Lakeviews. "The lake is all around me every
day. I see it, hear it, smell it. Its moods often express
my own: serene, agitated, brooding and wild."
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