Source: Ted Cable, 785-532-1408, tcable@k-state.edu
http://www.k-state.edu/media/mediaguide/bios/cablebio.html
News release prepared by: Andy Badeker, 785-532-6415, abadeker@k-state.edu
Friday, Jan. 25, 2008
K-STATE HORTICULTURE PROFESSOR WINS FULBRIGHT TO HELP ECOTOURISM IN MALI
MANHATTAN -- Ted T. Cable, a professor of park management and conservation at Kansas State University, has been selected for a Fulbright senior specialists project at the University of Bamako in the West African country of Mali.
Cable, who also is assistant head in the department of horticulture, forestry and recreation resources, will spend May training students, private-sector tour guides and Peace Corps volunteers in ecotourism and heritage tourism.
"As in many poor countries, tourism is seen as a means of economic development in Mali," Cable said. "The country is home to several fascinating heritage tourism sites, including the ancient city of Timbuktu and the Dogon Country, where villages are built into the sides of cliffs."
Cable is one of more than 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright senior specialists program, created in 2000 by the U.S. Department of State.
The program, which complements the traditional Fulbright scholars program, sends prominent U.S. faculty and professionals abroad for two to six weeks to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at postsecondary academic institutions.
Cable, a specialist in environmental interpretation, works with museums, zoos and private industry to present information to a broad public. He has helped national park programs and ecotourism projects in West Africa, Mexico and Paraguay.
He has published widely on conservation topics, including a textbook used to train tour guides and park rangers in countries ranging from France to Honduras. He is the author of "Commitments of the Heart: Odysseys in West African Conservation." Closer to home, he wrote "Birds of the Great Plains," "The Compact Guide to Kansas Birds" and "Driving Across Kansas," which interprets the state's rural landscape for travelers.
Cable earned his doctorate in forest recreation management from Purdue University in 1984 and joined K-State that same year.