Issue date: February 17, 1999
Actor-environmentalist Robert Redford will be one of four speakers in the 1999 Wallace Stegner Lecture Series, sponsored by the Menlo Park-based Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) to support preservation of open space on the Peninsula.
The four-lecture series will kick off Wednesday, February 17, at 8 p.m. at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, when Theo Colburn, a senior scientist with the World Wildlife Fund, discusses the effects of environmental pollutants on the developing endocrine, immune and nervous systems of humans and other animals.
On Monday, March 1, Mr. Redford will be interviewed by Michael Krasny, host of KQED's radio program, Forum.
Other speakers in POST's sixth lecture series honoring the late author and environmentalist Wallace Stegner will be nature and adventure photographer Galen Rowell on Thursday, March 18; and author and naturalist Anne Zwinger on Wednesday, May 12.
Proceeds from the lectures will benefit POST's $28.5 million campaign to save 10,000 acres of open space on the Peninsula. The nonprofit land trust has protected more than 35,000 Peninsula acres for agriculture, wildlife habitat, scenic vistas, and recreation.
The lecture series is also sponsored by Ambassador Bill and Mrs. Jean Lane of Portola Valley.
Single tickets are $20 except for Mr. Redford's lecture, which is $50.
For tickets, call 903-600. For information about POST, call 854-7696.
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