The Second Saturday event May 10 will feature Austin College's Dr. George Diggs program about the Trees of Texoma at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge. Diggs will discuss the environmental factors that influence the distribution of trees as well as ways to identify the more common ones in the Texoma area.
The program is part of the Second Saturday nature series sponsored by the Friends of Hagerman NWR, and will begin at 10 a.m., in the AV Center at the Refuge.
Dr. Diggs is a Professor of Biology at Austin College. He earned his Ph.D. at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981, and joined the Austin College faculty that same year. In addition to his on-campus classes, during Jan Term he has taught classes in botany and natural history in locations including Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, and Tanzania. In 1999, Diggs was named Texas "Professor of the Year" by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Dr. Diggs is a Research Associate of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) in Forth Worth, and he and his co-authors have received Donovan Stewart Correll Memorial Award for Shinners & Mahlers Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas, and for volume 1 of the Illustrated Flora of East Texas.
The program is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.friendsofhagerman.com/ or call the Refuge, 903 786 2826.