Dan Flores, A.B. Hammond Professor of Western History at the University of Montana, gave a talk entitled "Bioregionalism: Nature and Place - On the Llano Estacado of West Texas" on Thursday, November 2, 2000 at 3:00 p.m. in Student Center West 206 on the campus of Southwest State University.

Professor Flores is well known as a western historian, an environmental historian, and an advocate of bioregionalism. He also has a reputation as an engaging, charismatic public speaker. Flores will help contribute to the exploration of the meaning, definition, and creation of regions.

He has authored and edited many books including: Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest, Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains, Canyon Visions: Photographs and Pastels of the Texas Plains, Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frontier, 1790-1810, The Mississippi Kite: Portrait of a Southern Hawk, The Texas Red River Country: The Official Surveys of the Headwaters, 1876, Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman and Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806.