Mace Vaughan: April 25

Mace Vaughan, Conservation Director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, will give a talk at noon in the McLoughlin Auditorium. Mr. Vaughan has led the Xerces Society’s Agricultural Pollinator Conservation program for the last four years. He supervises research and outreach on habitat restoration for crop pollinating native bees, develops and presents educational materials to policy makers, land managers, and growers, and collaborates extensively with scientists researching the role and habitat needs of crop-pollinating native bees. He has written articles on the conservation of bees, butterflies, invertebrates, and insects, and is co-author of the Pollinator Conservation Handbook and Farming for Bees: Guidelines for Providing Native Bee Habitat on Farms. He has worked stints as an insect wrangler for PBS Nature.

April 26: Clem Starck

Poet Clem Starck will read from his work at noon in Rook Hall, Room 220. Starck is the author of Journeyman’s Wages, for which he received the Oregon Book Award for Poetry in 1996 and the William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award. His other books include China Basin and Studying Russian on Company Time.

Jeffrey St. Clair: April 18

Investigative journalist, writer and Oregon City resident Jeffrey St. Clair will speak on Wednesday, April 18 from noon to 1 p.m. in the McLoughlin Auditorium.

St. Clair is a writer and co-editor with Alexander Cockburn of the political newsletter CounterPunch. His reporting specializes on environmental and military issues. He has lived in Oregon since 1990 when he moved here to edit the influential environmental magazine Forest Watch, published by libertarian economist Randal O’Toole.

In 1998, he published his first book, with Cockburn, Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history of the CIA’s ties to drug gangs from World War II to the Mujahideen and Nicaraguan Contras. This was followed by A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with James Ridgeway), Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond, Al Gore: a User’s Manual, and Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature.