U.Va. Law Conference Will Evaluate Theories And Strategies In Environmental Conservation

October 11, 2000 -- "Saving Nature" will be the theme of a national conservation conference Oct. 19-20 sponsored by the University of Virginia School of Law’s Center for Environmental Studies.

With protection of forests, coastlines, wildlife habitat and other valuable natural resources emerging as a top national priority, the conference will explore and evaluate theories, tools and strategies that will shape conservation policy in the years ahead. Leading scholars, government officials, activists and conservation-agency heads, bringing diverse and competing perspectives, will be among speakers and panel participants. There is a $15 registration fee, which includes a lunch. [News media are invited to attend all sessions free of charge.]

David Hayes, U.S. deputy secretary of the interior, will give the conference’s keynote address at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, in Caplin Pavilion. Other sessions will be held in Withers/Brown Hall 102. [A schedule is attached.]

For additional information see the Web site for the "Saving Nature: Theories, Tools and Strategies in Environmental Conservation" conference at http://www.law.virginia.edu/SavingNature or contact Teri Johnson at (804) 924-4684.

Contact: Bob Brickhouse, (804) 924-6856

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: please contact the Office of University Relations at (804) 924-7116. Television reporters should contact the TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.
SOURCE: U.Va. News Services

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