A panel of
experts will discuss how Wisconsin’s hunting and fishing practices are being
affected by climate change at a free, public event offered in Stevens Point.
The panel
will be held Tuesday, April 1, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Benjamin Franklin
Junior High auditorium, 2000 Polk Street. Four panelists will speak then answer
questions from the audience. The panelists include:
- George Meyer, executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife
Federation and former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources
- Matt Mitro, fisheries scientist for the Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources
- Mike Notaro, associate director of the Center for Climate
Research at UW-Madison
- Ben Zuckerberg, professor of wildlife ecology at UW-Madison
Mitro,
Notaro and Zuckerberg are affiliated with the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate
Change Impacts, www.wicci.wisc.edu, created through UW-Madison’s
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources.
The panel is
co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Wisconsin Center
for Environmental Education, the Citizens’ Climate Lobby-Central Wisconsin
Chapter, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, Aldo Leopold Audubon Society,
350-Stevens Point, Friends of the Little Plover River, Interfaith Community for
the Earth, Trout Limited-Frank Hornberg Chapter and North Central Conservancy
Trust.
For more
information, contact Dan Dieterich at 715-344-1063 or Word1Consult@gmail.com.
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