<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Warren Wilson College environmental studies Professor Laura Lengnick will present the lecture, </span></span></div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">“Resilient Agriculture: Farming in a Changing Climate,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, in the University Center, Third Floor Theatre, at the University of Montana. </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">The lecture is free and open to the public.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><br></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Lengnick is an agronomist and soil scientist, as well as an educator, policymaker, activist and researcher, who focuses on how sustainable agriculture and food systems enhance communities. She was the leadauthor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture report “Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation,” which was included the third National Climate Assessment. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Lengnick also is a cl<span class="textexposedshow">imate resilience planning consultant with Fernleaf Solutions and researcher with the Local Food Research Center in Asheville, North Carolina. She has led the academic program in sustainable agriculture at Warren Wilson College for more than a decade.</span><br><br></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Sponsors of the lecture includethe UM Environmental Studies Program, UM Dining, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at UM, Montana Audubon, the UM Office of Sustainability, UM International Conservation and Development Program, UM Global Leadership Initiative, UM Resource Conservation Program, Climate Smart Missoula, Alternative Energy Resources Organization and the Community Food and Agriculture Coalition.</span></span></p></div></div></body></html>