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5-25-07
LEOPOLD CENTER HOSTS AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIST JUNE 7
AMES, Iowa -- An Australian scientist will share how woolgrowers in Tasmania are
learning to follow Aldo Leopold's land ethic in becoming strong conservationists
as well productive farmers.
Jann Williams will present "An Australian perspective on the multiple dimensions
of managing biodiversity in production landscapes" when she visits Iowa State
University on Thursday, June 7. Her seminar will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Room 233
of Science II on the ISU campus.
Williams is an adjunct professor at the University of Tasmania in Australia. She
is national coordinator of the Native Vegetation and Biodiversity subprogram of
Land, Water & Wool, a five-year program of the wool industry to to manage
natural resources sustainably and profitably. Williams works closely with
woolgrowers to help them adopt natural resource management practices and restore
native pastures and bushland. More than 70 families have been directly involved
with research projects on their land, and another 2,750 woolgrowers have worked
indirectly with the program.
Williams also manages a small business that provides sustainable management
consultation to government, industry and NGOs throughout Australia. She is
trained as a landscape ecologist, and her research focus is the conservation and
management of biodiversity in production landscapes. She has written or edited
more than 150 scientific publications and chairs the editorial board for
Ecological Management and Restoration journal.
In 2000 and 2001, she was president of the 1,500-member Ecological Society of
Australia. Currently, she is a national steering committee member for the Grain
& Graze Biodiversity Project and a member of the WildCountry Science Council of
eminent ecologists who provide scientific advice on key principals related to
biodiversity conservation in Australia.
The seminar is hosted by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the
ISU Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management.
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