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NSF PA/M 98-24 - October 5, 1998

NSF Sponsors "Living with Wolves" Conference

Environmentalists, theologians, conservationists, wildlife ecologists, public policy makers, philosophers and bioethicists will gather at the American Museum of National History in New York City from October 21-23 for a National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored conference on "wolf biology, civic democracy and obligations to future generations."

The conference is sponsored by the NSF's Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology (SDEST) program, and is presented by the Hastings Center and the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

Speakers and panel participants will explore the biological, political and ethical dimensions of a 1996 proposal by conservationists to restore the eastern timber wolf to New York's Adirondack State Park. The conference is open to the public and the media. To register, contact Janet Bower at the Hastings Center, (914) 424-4040/bowerj@thehastingscenter.org

Who:	Niles Eldredge, Curator, Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History Mary Midgley, Emeritus Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joseph Sax, Professor, School of Law, University of California-Berkeley
What:	"Wolves and Human Communities: Biology, Politics and Ethics"
When:	October 21-23, 1998
Where:	American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024

For more information contact:
Joel Blumenthal, OLPA, (703) 306-1070, jblument@nsf.gov

Rachelle Hollander, (SDEST), (703) 306-1743, rholland@nsf.gov

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