Printable PDF2010 PLENARY SESSION

"Opening Remarks" -- Co-Chairs, Roy Roath, Society for Range Management and John Jachetta Weed Science Society of America

"Welcome and salient remarks" -- Governor Ritter of Colorado (Invited) - Introduction of Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar (Invited)

Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar (Invited)

"History of the Development of the West" -- Dr. Elliott West - Professor of history at the University of Arkansas. Author of "The Way to the West", and "Essays on the Central Plains and Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far-Western Frontier", both of which received the Western Heritage Award for the best non-fiction book on the American West.

"Weeds in the Western Landscape" -- Dr. Richard Mack - Washington State University. A world authority on the invasion of plants into new regions, the circumstances that facilitate their persistence, and the reasons for an introduced plant to become invasive and damaging the natural environment, national economies and even human health.

"A Tour of Sustainable Landscapes in Colorado" -- Mr. John Fielder - Colorado's premier nature photographer.

Adjournment