Previous Lecturers at the
The Clemson University
Environmental Seminar Series
and
The Annual George B. Hartzog Lecture

2005

Ed Brannon, retired US Forest Service, “The First Century of the US Forest Service: The evolution (or was it creation) of forest conservation in America.”

2004

William Brown, Gary Everhardt, Robert Stanton, and Robert Utley, Panel Discussion “Re-Creating the National Parks: The Hartzog Years.”

2003

Dale N. Bosworth, 15th Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, “Delivering Values from Public Land: Today’s Challenge to Conservation.”

2002

Fran P. Mainella, 16th Director and first woman to lead the National Park Service in the organization’s history, “A Seamless Network of Parks.”

2001-Fall

Sharyn McCrumb, New York Times Best Selling Author, Appalachian Novelist, “The Serpentine Chain: A Novelist looks at the Appalachians.”

2001-Spring

Rudolph E. (Rudy) Mancke, Director of Science and Nature Programming, South Carolina Educational Television, “The Naturalist Tradition.”

2000

Beverly L. Driver, retired, USDA Forest Service, “The Leisure Profession: Where We Have Been and Where We Need to Go.”

1999

Moved to Spring 2000

1998

William C. Everhart, Assistant to the Director for Policy, National Park Service, “George Hartzog, A Swashbuckler Among Bureaucrats.”

1997

Robert G. Stanton, Director of the National Park Service, “The Future of Our National Parks.”

1996

Henry L. Diamond, Co-chair of the Sustainable Use of Land Project, and Pat Noonan, Chairman of the Conservation Fund, “Land Use in America.”

1995

Max Oelschlaeger, Professor in Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas, “Environmental Ethics and America’s National Parks.”

1994

Mario Boza, Director, Mesoamerican Biological Corridor Project, Caribbean Conservation Corporation, “Biodiversity Conservation in Mesoamerica.”

1993

Roger Kennedy, Director, National Park Service

1992

Lee Stetson, actor, Wild Productions, “An Evening with John Muir: Conversation with a Tramp.”

1991

Frank Bracken, Deputy Secretary of the Interior, “Emerging Federal Issues in Managing Natural Resources for Recreation.”

1990

Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wilderness Society

1989

James Ridenour, Director of the National Park Service, “The Expanding of Science in the Management of NPS and Science-based Decision Making.”

1988

Bill Burch, Jr., Hixson Professor of Natural Resources in Forestry and Environmental Studies, Director of Tropical Resources Institute at Yale University, “Relationships Between Natural Resources and Tourism.”

1987

Paul Pritchard, President, The National Parks and Conservation Association, “Tourism and Natural Resources:  New Approaches to Old Problems.”

1986

No presentation.

1985

Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior discussed events of the Udall/Hartzog era

1984

Ray Arnett, Assistant Secretary, Parks and Wildlife, “An Overview of America’s Land Conservation Systems.”

1983

Senator Malcolm Wallop

1982

Roundtable Discussion with George Hartzog, Marion Clawson, conservationist with Resources for the Future, and Bob Baker

1981

Russ Dickenson, Director, National Park Service “Our Legacy of Recreation Lands”

1980

Max Peterson, Chief, Forest Service 1979 -  “Recreation:  Changing Roles in a Changing Society.”