**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**

Author and environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb will discuss his new book, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. Delve into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment wildlife populations into inbred clusters, disrupt migration for creatures from antelope to salmon, allow invasive plants to spread, and even bend the arc of evolution itself. Explore some of the innovative solutions being sought by road ecologists, including conservationists building bridges for mountain lions and tunnels for toads, engineers deconstructing logging roads, and citizens working to undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon cities. Goldfarb is also the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, National Geographic, the New York Times, and many other publications, and has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. 

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Ashland Library.

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