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APRIL EARTH SIENCE EVENTS
Nature and You: A
Global Perspective
The Museum is pleased to partner with The
Nature Conservancy (TNC) to showcase three segments of the award-winning Planet
Earth series, produced by the Discovery Channel. On a big screen, you will see
incredible high-definition footage of some of the Earth’s most vulnerable
wildlife and landscapes, with scenes from nature never before captured on film.
Museum Chief Curator, Kirk Johnson, PhD, will team with Charles Bedford,
director of TNC in Colorado, to discuss the geologic history of these habitats
and current efforts to protect them for people and nature. Although admission to
these programs is free, reservations are required. Reserve your space for all
three, or register for individual programs.
Great Plains: Landscapes That Feed Humanity and Nourish the Soul
Thursday, April 3, 7:00 p.m..,
Ricketson Auditorium; Free; reservations required.
From the rolling prairies of North America
to the sun-struck savannas of Africa, the world’s great plains have supported
human life for countless generations and are home to the biggest groups of
migratory animals in the world. This film beautifully captures these precious
areas, which are the least-protected terrestrial habitats on Earth and in
Colorado comprise nearly half of the landscape.
Seasonal Forests: Homelands,
Shelters, and Key to a Stable Climate
Tuesday, April 22, 7:00 p.m., Ricketson
Auditorium, Free; reservations required.
Sheltering and verdant, forests nurture
and sustain life on Earth. Rich in plants and animals, in beauty and variety,
forests are abundant in natural resources, supplying people everywhere with
fiber, food, and freshwater. While forests seem familiar to most of us, they
have been largely unexplored—until now.
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