Walter J. Breckenridge Chapter
Izaak Walton League of America
Monthly Programs
If you have an interest in the environment and would like to meet like-minded people, come to one of our Social/Educational meetings. We invite a variety of speakers on outdoor topics and conservation, so you will and learn more about what is going on in our local community and throughout Minnesota. Meetings are held at the Chapter House the 4th Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm and are open to the public.
We invite you to come and see for yourself.
Stay afterward for refreshments and conversation.
Tuesday, September 22 7:30 pm
Jonathan Slaght, Wildlife Biologist
Author of Tigers Between Empires
In Jonathan C. Slaght’s new book, Tigers Between Empires, the award-winning author and conservationist charts the incredible, thirty-year story of how Russian and American scientists came together to help protect Amur tigers, more popularly known as ‘Siberian Tigers,’ from extinction. Slaght weaves together the lives of field-savvy researchers and the elusive tigers they study, detailing how both respond to the evolving threats that faced them in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Through robust science, innovation, and tenacity, this small, fearless international coalition laid the foundations of new tiger research across Asia and transformed public opinion around tigers from something to be feared and hunted, to creatures we must protect.
Jonathan C. Slaght, a scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, is the author of Owls of the Eastern Ice, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 2020 and won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2021. His latest book, Tigers Between Empires, was named a Best Book of 2025 by the Minnesota Star Tribune, Scientific American, and others. His writings have been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Orion. He lives in Minneapolis.
Please join us for this presentation followed by refreshments and conversation.
