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3 p.m. Dr. Schummer will present “The History and Importance of Waterfowl Conservation” at the Rice Creek Field Station in Oswego. This presentation is open to the public. 

Dr. Michael Schummer is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Zoology at SUNY Oswego and Roosevelt Waterfowl Ecologist of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He has worked for Bird Studies Canada, Mississippi State University, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, NYSDEC, USFWS, and a diversity of other conservation stakeholders where he has conducted research, conservation, and management of wetland wildlife throughout much of North America. Along with a general interest in wildlife conservation, Mike specializes in research of North American waterfowl at the national, regional, and local scales to develop applied science products that provide the opportunity for conservation stakeholders to make well-informed decisions. See http://schummerlab.weebly.com/ for more information about the work conducted by Dr. Schummer’s lab. Dr. Schummer will present on “The History and Importance of Waterfowl Conservation”. About this presentation, he states, “Waterfowl scientists, conservationists, and managers have contributed countless hours to pioneer a diversity of conservation successes that we increasingly take for granted. These successes not only provided for those interested in sustaining waterfowl populations but a foundation for other stakeholders in environmental conservation and all those concerned with the future of this planet. We should not forget this history; our challenge, today, is to meld these successes with the increasingly diverse value-system of emerging conservationists to build a new success story for tomorrow.” Dr. Schummer will present at the Rice Creek Field Station of SUNY Oswego. The Field Station, established in 1965, saw a substantial face-life in 2013 with a new state-of-the-art building that is used for teaching and research. The Field Station has a diversity of trails open for exploration that meander through secondary growth forests, abandoned fields and orchards, and older growth forest. Dr. Schummer will accompany us on a snowshoe trip through the Field Station grounds and on a birding trip along Lake Ontario and the Oswego Harbor and River.