{"id":1258,"date":"2025-10-06T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=217667"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:19:27","slug":"217667","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/event\/217667\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs\">Join Larry Nielsen, Ph.D., for \u201cLessons from the Great Conservationists of the Past\u201d\u2014a free public talk at 5 p.m., Oct. 14, in Room 120, Trainer Natural Resources Building, UW-Stevens Point. Hear inspiring stories of leaders like Rachel Carson, Chico Mendes, Billy Frank Jr., and Wangari Maathai, and discover why there\u2019s still plenty of hope for our planet.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\u201cThese seem like stressful times for the environment and sustainability. But fear not,\u201d Nielsen said. \u201cOur world is better today than in the past, and it will be even better in the future\u2014if we act with the same persistence as the conservationists who came before us.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">Nielsen retired in 2018 after more than four decades in higher education, where he served as provost and executive vice chancellor, dean of natural resources, and professor of fisheries and wildlife sciences. He is the author of several books, including Nature\u2019s Allies, a collection of conservation biographies, and is known for his storytelling ability, humor and optimism.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\"><em>Hosted by the Wisconsin Center for Wildlife and the Center for Watershed Science and Education, part of the UW-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources and UW-Extension.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Larry Nielsen, Ph.D., for \u201cLessons from the Great Conservationists of the Past\u201d\u2014a free public talk at 5 p.m., Oct. 14, in Room 120, Trainer Natural Resources Building, UW-Stevens Point. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1259,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-1258","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}