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Thursday, April 16, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (ET)
Lecture and book signing presented by Kim Todd, author of the
award-winning book "Tinkering with Eden," a Natural History of Exotic
Species in America.
Starlings. House sparrows. Ring-necked pheasants. These species were
deliberately brought to America and set free. Once thought to be
harmless whims, these purposeful releases proved to be forerunners of
increasingly dangerous ecological invasions. Kim Todd tells the stories
of animals imported to North America since the time of European
settlement, from the pigeons and honeybees brought with the earliest
colonists, to 19th-century introductions of the birds of the poets, and
onward to the 21st-century experiments with biological control. The
lecture looks at the past and future of non-native species
introductions and discusses the importance of acquiring a sense of
biological history. Kim will be available after the lecture to sign
copies of her book Tinkering with Eden, available at the Audubon
Society of Rhode Island Nature Shop.
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