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Dr. Char Miller, Professor of History, Trinity University, examined the central administrative, legal, and political tensions the U.S. Forest Service has long confronted and evaluate the key environmental challenges the agency and the national will face over the next century. During the 2005 Forest Service centennial, Dr. Miller traveled the nation speaking about Forest Service history. The talk explored links between the agency's past, present, and future and suggested what this remarkable organization must do to adapt to the immense difficulties that lie ahead. The lecture was held November 9, 2006 in the White Lecture Hall, Duke University East Campus. | |||||||||||||
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Char Miller is professor
and chair of the history department at Trinity University in San Antonio,
Texas. He is the author of Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern
Environmentalism, which received the following awards: 2003 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award, Forest History Society; 2002 Independent Publishers Association Biography Prize; 2002 National Outdoor Book Award for
History/Biography; ForeWord Magazine's Gold Award for Biography; and the Connecticut Center
for the Book Biography Prize, 2002. He is co-author of The Greatest Good: 100 Years of Forestry in
America, and editor of Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western
Water Conflict and On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio.
Miller specializes in American environmental, social, and cultural history.
He was named a Piper Professor for teaching excellence in 2002. Miller has M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University, is a Senior Fellow of
the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, and serves on the Editorial Boards
of Environmental History, Pacific Historical Review, and the
Trinity University Press. |
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