From the Estes Park Trail-Gazette (Julie Harvey):
Renowned aquatic and terrestrial ecologists Cathy M. Tate and Tim Seastedt will go with the flow on water, discussing current ecology and uses, at the Shining Mountains Group annual dinner, Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Crags in Estes Park. Tate, an ecologist with the National Quality Assessment Program at the U.S. Geological Survey, and Seastedt, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado in Boulder, will speak from 8 to 9:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Cost for the evening is $15, which includes a social hour and cash bar, beginning at 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., a buffet dinner from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and the program. Tate and Seastedt will present “Two Views on Water and the West,” and discuss the current and ongoing changes in the way water is obtained and used by animals, humans and plants in Colorado. Included will be water quality and quantity of streams, rivers and reservoirs, and related patterns of rainfall and snowfall to forest die-back, the appearance of new species, the loss of native species and how these changes will affect biological communities…
Space is limited. Payment must reach Madeline Framson by Nov. 8. Checks are payable to Shining Mountains Group — CMC, mark them for annual dinner. Send the check to Madeline Framson, 1155 S. St. Vrain #C8, Estes Park, CO 80517. For more information, call (970) 586-6623.
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