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Examine the history of wildlife conservation in the Klamath Basin with a presentation by Stephen Rooker, an interpretive ranger for the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge Complex, on Tuesday, April 25th at 1 pm at the South Suburban Branch Library, 3625 Summers Lane.
The presentation will be preceded by a business meeting of the Northside Garden Club, which will start at 10:30 am, followed by a break for lunch. The public is welcome to attend both the presentation and the garden club meeting.
Rooker will highlight the legacies of two of Oregon’s conservation heroes: 19th-century Oregon legislator John Waldo, who shepherded the effort to protect the Cascade Mountains; and wildlife photographer William L. Finley, whose passion for waterbirds helped create the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge in 1908.
Rooker is a 25-year veteran park ranger with the Department of the Interior, and has worked on the nation’s conservation efforts all over the country – from the mangrove swamps of south Florida to the Wrangell Mountains in Alaska, and many habitats in between.
For more information, please call the South Suburban library at 541-273-3679 or visit the club on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/KlamathDistrictGardenClubs.