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SHERMAN, TX - Roger Mangham of the Nature Conservancy of Texas will speak at Austin College Thursday, May 6, at 11 a.m. in Hoxie Thompson Auditorium of Sherman Hall on "Fire Ecology on the Blackland Prairie." A pre-lecture coffee begins at 10 a.m. The coffee and lecture are free and open to the public. For information, call Jan Beckert at (903) 813-2034.There will be opportunities before and after the lecture to visit with Mangham, the North Texas projects director for the Nature Conservancy of Texas. His lecture is the last in the North Texas Land Stewardship series for the 2003-04 academic year, and is funded by a grant from Robert and Ruby Priddy through the Communities Foundation of Texas. Mangham holds a bachelor's degree in forestry from Stephen F. Austin State University, with a major in forest wildlife management. He is responsible for all conservation land protection and managerial activities in conservancy holdings within the North Texas area, and has extensive experience in fire management. See details on the North Texas Land Stewardship lectures at www.austincollege.edu/Category.asp?1450.Austin College, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), is an independent, liberal arts college of 1,300 students located 60 miles north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas. Chartered in November 1849, it is the oldest college in Texas under original charter and name as recognized by the State Historical Survey Committee.Austin College is included in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives, ranked among the "Best 351 Colleges" in the 2004 Princeton Review, and profiled in the 2004 edition of Kaplan's Insiders Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges.
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