WKU Libraries Hosts Wildlife Specialist Tom Barnes At Barnes & Noble

February 10, 2009

Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University Libraries will be hosting noted wildlife specialist Tom Barnes this Thursday (Feb. 12) at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Booksellers as part of its Kentucky Live! Series.  As professor of forestry and wildlife specialist at the University of Kentucky, he is a frequent commentator on wildlife management and animal damage control.
           
“Barnes is a frequent author for Kentucky Gardener, Kentucky Home and Gardening Magazine, Kentucky Afield and Back Home in Kentucky,” said Brian Coutts, Department Head of Public Services at WKU Libraries. “He’s regularly seen and heard on Kentucky radio and television and has presented more than 400 educational programs on a variety of wildlife related topics.”
           
In 1998 his first book, Gardening for the Birds, was published by the University Press of Kentucky.  He followed that with Kentucky’s Last Great Places in 2002 which included observations, anecdotes and more than 100 of his full-color photos drawn from a 13-year exploration of little studied areas of the state. In 2004 he published Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky.  His newest book, Rare Wildflowers of Kentucky, authored with Deborah White and Marc Evans, documents Kentucky’s signature rare plants and includes 220 full-color photographs by Barnes.  Barnes will sign copies of his newest book following the presentation.

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For more information, contact Jennifer Wilson, (270) 745-6977.