"Defending the Range: Farrington R. Carpenter and Public Land Grazing Policy in the 1930s," a lecture by history doctoral student Julia Hobson on Feb. 3, 3:30 p.m., University Memorial Center room 235 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The 1930s presented Western ranchers with two significant threats. Drought and depression threatened their operations while a new school of land management informed by ecology and progressivism began to challenge the way they operated. Their responses to these threats are the subject of the lecture, which focuses on Farrington R. Carpenter, a Colorado rancher, attorney and the first director of the Federal Grazing Service.
The lecture is free and open to the public. The sponsor is the Center of the American West at CU-Boulder.