Patrick Shea, director of the Bureau of Land Management, will give a public address titled, "The New West: Conflicting Visions," at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Thursday, Nov. 12. He will speak at 7 p.m. in room 270 of the Hale Science Building. The event is sponsored by the Center of the American West and is free and open to the public. As BLM director, Shea has policy and administrative responsibility for 270 million acres of land and oversees a workforce of about 9,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $1 billion.