*Please note this was previously recorded live on March 11 in the Byrd Auditorium at the National Conservation Training Center.
Author and Professor of Law Zygmunt Plater will present Illuminating the Beleaguered Endangered Species Act for Its Public.
Zygmunt J. B. Plater is law professor emeritus at Boston College. Plater is the author of The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River. Plater has taught eight law faculties in the U.S. and abroad, teaching and researching environmental law, property, land use, and administrative agency law. Over the past 30 years, he has been involved with multiple issues of environmental protection and land use regulation, including service as petitioner and lead counsel in the extended endangered species litigation and congressional battles over the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam. He was chairman of the State of Alaska Oil Spill Commission’s Legal Task Force after the wreck of the M/V Exxon-Valdez.
These talks are a part of the NCTC Conservation Lecture Series, which is co-sponsored by The Friends of the NCTC. No tickets or reservations are required.
Upcoming Events - NCTC Conservation Lecture Series at the Byrd Auditorium
- April 3 at 7:00 pm - Christine Cunningham and Steve Meyer, "The Land We Share: A Love Affair Told in Hunting Stories"
- May 11 - NCTC Open House, from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
For more information, please contact Mark Madison (304-876-7276) mark_madison@fws.gov
Past lectures are available for viewing at the NCTC Broadcast Library.