Join Washington Policy Center for Farm to Free Market in Tri-Cities – our third annual Agriculture Policy Dinner! This event will bring together hundreds from the Agriculture community throughout Washington state to learn about WPC’s Initiative on Agriculture.
Seattle environmentalists are making an aggressive push to destroy the Snake River dams. Join us to hear why they are wrong, not only on the economics, but on the science.
This will be held at the Red Lion in Pacso, WA again with the reception starting at 5:30pm and dinner starting at 6:00pm.
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Featured Speaker: Dr. Peter Kareiva
Peter Kareiva is the director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, as well as the Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment & Sustainability. Before coming to UCLA, Peter was the Chief Scientist and Vice President of The Nature Conservancy. He led a NOAA research group at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center on Conservation Biology.
Peter studied Political Science and Zoology at Duke University for his bachelor’s degree and Ecology and Applied Mathematics at Cornell University for his Ph.D. Peter publishes prolifically, having authored over 100 scientific articles in such diverse fields as mathematical biology, fisheries science, insect ecology, risk analysis, genetically engineered organisms, agricultural ecology, population viability analysis, behavioral ecology, landscape ecology and global climate change.
In 2007, Peter was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also received a Guggenheim fellowship and is a member of the Ecological Society of America and the Society for Conservation Biology.
His current research concerns the connection between humans and nature, and the varied ways people of different cultures value nature, as well as inequities in access to nature and decent environments.
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