Speaker Series: Carter Smith

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Houston Zoo Call of the Wild Speaker Series resumes October 2010 with an exciting lineup of guest speakers.

November 17th, 2010

The Houston Zoo welcomes Carter Smith, Executive Director, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

A native of Austin, Smith developed his passion for wildlife and the out of doors at a young age while roaming his family’s farm and ranch land interests in Gonzales, Williamson, and Edwards Counties. He has a wildlife management degree from Texas Tech and a master’s degree in conservation biology from Yale University. He began his professional career in 1992 as a management intern at TPWD, assisting in the Private Lands and Public Hunting programs. As a biologist, he has worked on a variety of research projects ranging from studying moose in the boreal forests of Saskatchewan to pronghorn antelope in far west Texas.

He serves on a number of conservation-related boards of directors and advisory councils and was recently named an outstanding alumnus by Texas Tech and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Prior to his selection as TPWD Executive Director, Carter Smith was with The Nature Conservancy of Texas, serving as state director, where he led a team that protected nearly 250,000 acres.

Go to http://www.houstonzoo.org/lectureseries/ for ticket information

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