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[email protected]. The University of Montana Office of N ews and Publications NEWS RELEASE Missoula, MT 59812 (406) 243-2522 Feb. 26, 1992 LAND INSTITUTE FOUNDER TO DISCUSS ‘AGE OF DISCOVERY’ IN UM LECTURE MISSOULA - Wes Jackson, founder and president of The Land Institute, will visit The University of Montana Tuesday, March 10, to deliver a free public lecture on the age of discovery. Jackson will discuss "Five Hundred Years After Columbus: the End of the Age of Colonization and the Beginning of the Age of Discovery" at 8 p.m. in the Montana Theatre. The lecture is part of UM’s President’s Lecture Series. Jackson, one of 18 individuals Life magazine predicted will rank among the 100 "important Americans of the 20th Century," founded The Land Institute in 1976.