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SUMMARY:Audubon Day: George Shiras III and the Battle for The Migratory Bi
 rd Act
LOCATION:Hillman Library 340 Archives & Special Collections Instruction Ro
 om\, 3960 Forbes Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15260
DESCRIPTION:RSVP at pi.tt/Audubon26\n\nJames McCommons\, author of The Fea
 thers Wars and Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds (2026)\, tells of th
 e story of George Shiras III\, a Pittsburgh lawyer\, congressman\, world’
 s first wildlife photographer and inventor of the trail camera\, and the 
 originator of what became the Migratory Bird Act\, one of the most effect
 ive wildlife protection laws in American history. A member of a storied P
 ittsburgh family\, Shiras joined the unlikely coalition of writers\, phot
 ographers\, conservationists\, politicians\, socialites\, game wardens\, 
 business leaders\, gunmakers\, hunters and bird watchers who halted the d
 ecimation of wildlife and established the conservation movement to protec
 t American wildlife.\n\nJames McCommons is a professor emeritus at Northe
 rn Michigan University in Marquette\, Michigan where he taught journalism
  and nature writing for 20 years. A 1981 graduate of the University of Pi
 ttsburgh\, majoring in English\, McCommons worked as a newspaper and maga
 zine journalist\, professor\, and author. Specializing in ecology\, envir
 onmental and travel topics\, he contributed to Better Homes and Gardens\,
  Discover\, Audubon\, Wildlife Conservation\, Organic Gardening\, Backpac
 ker\, the Los Angeles Times\, and the New York Times. He is the author of
  the narrative\, non-fiction book: Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Futu
 re of Passenger Rail named by The Library Journal as a best nonfiction bo
 ok of 2009. In 2019\, the University of New Mexico Press published Camera
  Hunter\, a bio\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/6c347eb0-ec4b-48ad-9503-ee
 38da0640dd
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