"What's Bugging You?" BLM Brown Bag Lecture Series

"What’s Bugging You?" Enjoy Entomologist Bill Hoy for an eclectic overview of some of the creatures that compose 80 percent of Earth’s living species.  At any given time, Hoy estimates there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual living insects on earth.  Join Hoy as he leads us through some fascinating, hair-raising, skin-crawling information on bugs & their essential role in our ecosystem.

Each Friday, the Bureau of Land Management and its’ partners host the popular Brown Bag Lecture series. The lectures provide unique opportunities for members of the public to learn more about the benefits of the area’s natural resources and public lands. Speakers including geologists, range specialists, biologists, archaeologists, rangers and other specialists who will delve more deeply into subjects tied to the Arizona Strip and surrounding public lands. For those who want to learn more before venturing out or are otherwise unable to access some of these remote and rugged landscapes, the lectures are an excellent way to bring the resources and related issues to the community’s doorstep.

The lecture series is sponsored by the Dixie/Arizona Strip Interpretive Association, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service.