Forestry historian Char Miller will discuss the making of modern environmentalism during a free public lecture at the University of Arkansas at Monticello May 3 at 7 p.m. in the conference center of the H.H. Chamberlin Forest Resources Building.

   Miller is the U.S.D.A. Forest Service Centennial Lecturer and his appearance is being co-sponsored by the Southern Research Station of the Forest Service, the Arkansas Forest Resources Center, the school of Forest Resources and the southeast Arkansas chapter of the Society of American Foresters.

   Miller’s lecture will highlight the life of Gifford Pinchot, the founding chief of the Forest Service and a central architect in the development of the conservation movement in the United States.

   Miller is a faculty member in the department of History and director of urban studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He was named a 2002 Piper Professor, a statewide award for excellence in teaching and service to higher education in Texas. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Pinchot Institute for Conservation in Washington, D.C., a member of the board of directors of the Forest History Society, and an associate editor for "Environmental History" and the Journal of Forestry.

   A noted author, Miller received the 2003 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award from the Forest History Society, the 2002 Independent Publishers Biography Prize, and the 2002 National Outdoor Book Award for History and Biography for his book biography of Pinchot entitled "Gifford Pinchot and The Making of Modern Environmentalism." Miller also co-authored "The Greatest Good: 100 Years of Forestry in America," and recently edited "The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History" and "Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land and Life in South Texas."

   For more information, contact the School of Forest Resources at (870) 460-1052 or the U.S. D.A. Forest Service at (870) 367-3464.