Orion executive director Jim Posewitz is available for hunter ethics presentations, classes or seminars. The material can be tailored to suit any client. These presentations can be arranged with the client expected to cover expenses and a modest honorarium. Jim has made more that 150 such instructional appearances working primarily with agencies, hunting based organizations and with state hunter education coordinators and their instructors. Contact Jim for details and scheduling. In addition to ethics lectures and seminars, Orion’s
executive director is available to speak or lecture on the subject of
the North American Hunting Heritage. These presentations can also be
arranged with the client expected to cover expenses and a modest
honorarium. Contact Jim for details and scheduling.
Jim's article on Commerce Conservation & The Democracy of Hunting is in the Summer 2007 Pheasants Forever conservation journal. Author
and conservationist Jim Posewitz speaks at The American Conservation
Ethic - An Uncommon Idea, which aims to introduce a new way of thinking
about prairie that includes Theodore Roosevelt's understanding of a
conservation ethic as bearing "directly upon our welfare, because [it
adds] to the beauty of living and therefore to the joy of life." The
event is presented by the Rim Country Land Institute, a nonprofit
dedicated to connecting people to the wonders of the prairie in
Billings' backyard. Rim Country Land Institute was founded by Carol and
Larry McEvoy, a family therapist and physician who noted that many of
their patients suffered from a sense of disconnectedness, lack of
meaning and depression. "Aware of the increasing research in
place-based education and its positive results, we saw the possibility
of helping people to connect to land in ways that would enhance
relationships with themselves and with each other as well," McEvoy
says. They closed their professional offices in 2001 and purchased
2,400 acres of mixed-grass prairie west of Billings for their research
and programs. This event kicks off the institute's new summer prairie
workshop series. In 1993, Mr. Posewitz founded Orion The Hunter's
Institute, a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to the
preservation of ethical hunting and wild resources. He has been
executive director of the Cinnabar Foundation since its inception in
1983. Cinnabar awards environmental protection and wildlife
conservation grants in Montana and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
He also has published three books: Beyond Fair Chase, Inherit the Hunt
and Rifle in Hand.
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