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Dr. George Constantz will present the fifteenth Maurice Brooks Lecture, “Hollows, Peepers and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology,” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 18. The lecture will be held in room G102 of the Engineering Sciences Building on West Virginia University’s Evansdale Campus. Admission is free. Refreshments will be served and a book signing will take place following the lecture.

Dr. Constantz is an ecologist with interests in fishes, watersheds, and organizations that steward these resources. He recently retired from a varied career contributing ecological expertise to a variety of public and private agencies. He spent the last decade of his career with the Canaan Valley Institute in Davis, W.Va, working as a Watershed Resources Specialist, manager of its Research and Development Program, and manager of its Education Program.

Since his retirement, he continues to write on animal behavior, ecology, and conservation in the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. His book, “Hollows, Peepers and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology,” will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

The lecture honors the late Maurice Brooks, a professor of wildlife management in the Davis College’s Division of Forestry and Natural Resources who was described by peers as a “renaissance naturalist” of the Appalachian region. The Maurice Brooks Lectureship Series was established through gifts to the West Virginia University Foundation, a private, non-profit corporation that generates and provides support for WVU.