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2005 Shivvers Memorial Lecture:
The Farm as Natural Habitat
Presented by Laura Jackson, University of Northern
Iowa, Cedar Falls
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Iowa State University, Ames
Sponsored by the Leopold Center for
Sustainable Agriculture, the ISU chapter of
Gamma Sigma Delta Honorary Society for
Agriculture and the ISU Committee on Lectures
funded by GSB
The lecture has been presented at
ISU since 1969 in memory of John Shivvers who farmed
near Knoxville. The lectures focus on ways in which
agriculture can sustain rather than destroy natural
resources.
Transcript of Jackson's presentation
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Laura Jackson |
Laura Jackson is one of Iowa's emerging leaders in
ecology, land conservation and agriculture. She is a
professor in the Department of Biology at the
University of Northern Iowa where she teaches
courses in ecology, conservation biology and
restoration of agricultural landscapes.
She is a co-editor of the 2002 book of essays,
The Farm as Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food
Systems to Ecosystems. Her passionate interest
in environmental issues and the future of
agriculture isn’t surprising considering her family
background. Her mother is Dana L. Jackson, senior
program associate for the Land Stewardship Project
in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and the co-editor of
The Farm as Natural Habitat. Wes Jackson, her
father, is president of the Land Institute in
Salina, Kansas, and author of several books,
including New Roots for Agriculture and
Altars of Unhewn Stone: Science and the Earth.
Kamyar Enshayan, her husband and fellow UNI
professor, leads several projects that explore the
mechanics and benefits of local food systems.
Jackson serves on Iowa's advisory board for the
State Preserves System, reflecting her interest in
preservation and restoration of Iowa's prairies,
forests and wetlands. She and her students are
currently studying how to add wildflower species to
grass-dominated prairie plantings. These techniques
could be applied to roadsides, CRP fields and
rotationally grazed pastures.
Since 2003 she has been a member of the advisory
board for the Leopold Center for Sustainable
Agriculture. She has a Ph.D. in ecology and
evolutionary biology (with an agronomy minor) from
Cornell University and has been a member of the UNI
faculty since 1993.
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