Former Forest Service chief to speak on conservation

Michael Dombeck, chief of the U.S. Forest Service during the second term of the Clinton administration, will speak Thursday, Nov. 8, on “The Ten Big Conservation Challenges: Where Do We Go from Here?” at 4 p.m. in Union South, 227 N. Randall Ave.

Earlier this year, Dombeck returned to his undergraduate alma mater, UW-Stevens Point, as a professor to teach and help develop a new Global Environmental Management Education Center. Dombeck spent 12 years with the Forest Service, primarily in the Midwest and West, before moving to Washington, D.C.

The Stevens Point native spent much of his youth in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon National Forest and worked as a fishing guide while earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, the latter at the University of Minnesota. He holds a doctorate in fisheries biology from Iowa State University and is known for research contributions on muskies and lake habitat management.

Dombeck’s campus appearance is sponsored by the Institute for Environmental Studies.

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