As part of the Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Dr. Philip Garone will present “California Wetlands – Two Centuries of Loss and Recovery: Lessons From the Central Valley.”

Philip Garone is an associate professor of history at California State University Stanislaus. He holds a Ph.D. in history and an M.S. in ecology from the University of California, Davis, and his research specialty is U.S. and California environmental history. He has published the first comprehensive environmental history of the Central Valley, The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California’s Great Central Valley (University of California Press, 2011). His current research focuses on the responses of public lands management agencies to climate change, and on a variety of Western water resource issues.

The Sustainable Futures Speaker Series is presented by the Environment & Community Graduate Program and the Schatz Energy Research Center.

The presentation will take place Thursday, September 26, at 5:30 p.m. in Gist Hall 218 on the HSU campus.