Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist in the Arena

Darrin Lunde – “A Field Guide to Roosevelt the Naturalist”

Author of The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History, Darrin Lunde is a Supervisory Museum Specialist in the Division of Mammals at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Previously, he worked at the American Museum of Natural History, where he led field expeditions throughout the world. Lunde has named more than a dozen new species of mammals and provided valuable scientific insights on hundreds of others. He is also the author of several children’s books including Meet the Meerkat and Hello, Bumblebee Bat.

Char Miller – “Kindred Spirits: The Remarkable Partnership of Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot”

Char Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, and serves as a Senior Fellow of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation and a Fellow of The Forest History Society. An award-winning teacher and scholar, MIller’s recent books include America’s Great National Forests, Wildernesses, and Grasslands, Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. the California Dream, Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot, and Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings. He frequently contributes essays, commentary, and reviews to newspapers, journals, and online venues.

Thursday, September 14, 2017

6:00 p.m. Registration – May Hall
7:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
7:30 p.m. Keynote Address: Darrin Lunde
  A Field Guide to Roosevelt the Naturalist
8:30 p.m. Book Signing with Darrin Lunde

Friday, September 15, 2017

8:00 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
9:15 a.m. Char Miller
Kindred Spirits: The Remarkable Partnership of Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot
10 a.m. Q & A with Char Miller
10:30 a.m. Break & Book Signing with Char Miller
10:45 a.m. Barb Rosenstock
   Friendship Under Five Inches of Snow: Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite
11:25 a.m. Q & A with Barb Rosenstock
11:45 a.m. Break & Book Signing with Barb Rosenstock
Noon Lunch
1:00 p.m. Duane Jundt
“I So Declare It”: Roosevelt’s Love Affair with Birds
1:40 p.m. Q & A with Duane Jundt
2:00 p.m. Break
2:15 p.m. Melanie Choukas-Bradley
President Roosevelt’s Explorations of Rock Creek Park
3:00 p.m. Q & A with Melanie Choukas-Bradley
3:30 p.m. Break and Book Signing with Melanie Choukas-Bradley
4:30 p.m. Social in Stoxen Library
5:15 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. Elkhorn Cottonwood Campfire – music and cowboy poetry at Beck Auditorium in DSU’s Klinefelter Hall

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Field trip to Medora, North Dakota

8:00 a.m. Registration for Field Trip/Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Depart for Medora
9:30 a.m. Clay Jenkinson
Intersecting Genius, 1886: William Hornaday, Theodore Roosevelt and the Saving of the Buffalo
10:20 a.m. Panel with guest scholars – A wide-ranging discussion and synthesis of symposium themes
11:15 p.m. Lunch and field trip
4:15 p.m. Closing reception

Darrin Lunde delivers his keynote address, “A Field Guide to Roosevelt the Naturalist.”

Char Miller describes a friendship, out of which grew a national commitment to carefully manage America’s treasured public lands, in “Kindred Spirits: The Remarkable Partnership of Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot,” at the 2017 Theodore Roosevelt Symposium.

Barb Rosenstock shares her odyssey of learning about Theodore Roosevelt by writing about him, in her address titled “Friendship Under Five Inches of Snow: Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite,” September 15, 2017.

Duane Jundt explores the role birds and birding played in the life of an American president in his lecture, “‘I So Declare It’: Roosevelt’s Love Affair with Birds.”

Melanie Choukas-Bradley describes a President who pursued his love of nature, birding, and strenuous rock scrambles and point to point hikes in “President Roosevelt’s Explorations of Rock Creek Park.”