Forest Historian Will Speak in Glendora

The Angeles Volunteer Association invites members of the public to attend its meeting on Thursday, May 1. Our special guest speaker will be Prof. Char Miller who is an expert on American environmental history. Miller has been a faculty member at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas since 1981. From 1998 to 2004 he served as chair of the History Department, and since 2001 he has been the Director of Urban Studies. Currently he is a visiting professor at Pomona College.

Prof. Miller’s recent publications include Ground Work: Conservation in American Environmental Culture, 2007; Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, 2001; and The Greatest Good: 100 Years of Forestry in America, 1999 [with Rebecca Staebler].

During the U.S. Forest Service Centennial, Prof. Miller was the designated Centennial Lecturer. In this capacity he toured the United States during 2004 and 2005 and spoke on the controversial politics of federal land management since the late nineteenth century. The tour began in Montana, wended its way through Canada, Alaska, California and Oregon, and then east to New Hampshire, North Carolina and Florida. There were also stops in Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. In all, the trip was more than 100,000 miles and Miller delivered more than 70 lectures.

TIME AND LOCATION: 7:00 p.m. on May 1 at the Scout Hut in Finkbiner Park in Glendora.

From Foothill Blvd. go north on Wabash Ave., passing the baseball field on your right.   Turn right (east) on Meda. Continue past the first cross street (Minnesota Ave.). After passing the tennis courts on your right, the road ends at the parking lot.  The Scout Hut is the small building southeast of the parking lot.

You may also park on the south side of Finkbiner Park along Dalton Ave. From there you will need to walk to the north side of the park. (Use one of the pedestrian bridges to cross the flood control channel.) See Map

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