Rural System's

Speeches

A Collection of Speeches and Lectures by Robert H. Giles, Jr.

• General Notes on Speech Making Techniques ... the difference between the promise and the practice
• The Meaning of a Systems Approach to Wildlife Management, 1968, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C.
• Concepts for Managers - The Faunery, Based on a lecture at the College of Architecture, University of Kentucky, September, 1971 at the invitation of Herbert Kramel.
• Virginia's Land: Going ... GoingVirginia's Land, Exploitation or Conservation?;October 5, 1973; Sponsored by the Conservation Council of Virginia, with Assistance from the Central Atlantic Environmental Center, John Marshall Hotel, Richmond, Virginia
• Predicting Futures: A Role of Science 1979, AAAS, Moscow Idaho
• Animal Energy, the annual meeting of the Virginia chapter of the Izaac Walton league of America, Natural Bridge, VA) Oct. 10, 1980. also Shawnee Hunt Club, Radford ) Dec. 6, 1980.
• The Next Ecologist: Future Control - Annual banquet of the Wildlife Society Chapter, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, April 15, 1980.
• A Computer System to Aid in Mined-Land Reclamation - A Conference Speech, Virginia, 1980
• Managerial Control: Life with a High R² - a lecture presented at the Wildlife Habitat Short course, April 11, 1989, Donaldson Brown Center for Continuing Education, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• New Century Dreaming a Little, Comments for a Regional SubCommittee - mid 1990s
• Vertebrate Damage Management: The Future of an Evolving Profession - National Animal Damage Control Association, 1997?, Roanoke, Virginia
• Ancient Forests, Future Forests - Comments on a Paper Before the Virginia Chapter of the Wildlife Society, 1998
• Resolving the Cross Currents in Wildlife Management, Virginia Wildlife Chapter, 2001
• Crescent Management: The Watershed Management Alternative (notes) - Virginia Tech, Fralin Auditorium, March 21, 2005
• A Successful Failure: The Old Modern Conference the conclusion or wrap-up of a 1994 Baltimore, Maryland forest industry conference.
• Animal Energy - 1980- Izaac Walton League, Natural Bridge, 1980 and later, Shawnee Hunt Club
• Virginia's Land: Exploitation or Conservation? October 5, 1973
• Outdoor-Loudon (Co.) Strategy - Eco-tourism as a Host and Hostess System Presented at the conference: "Eco-Tourism: A Rural Escape to Northern Virginia," Oatland Plantation, Loudoun County, VA, April 5, 1997.
• Experiences With Microcomputers in University Wildlife Conservation Education - 1994
• A Reasonable Future for the Valley, New River Symposium Talk, Radford, VA, 2007

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