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Saturday, February 25
 

9:00am CST

Plenary - A Celebration of 60 Years of Illinois Nature Preserves Rooms 21-25 & 30-34Arnold Randall • Amy Doll • Arthur Pearson • John Rogner • Tori Cunningham

10:15am CST

One Health: Nature, Culture, & Human Connections Rooms 55, 57Laura Derks • Cassandra Powell • Gloria Orozco • Levi Jenkins • Aaron Siebert-Llera • Donisha Reed The Past and Future of Biodiversity Conservation Rooms 28, 29Stephen Packard Bringing the Indiana Bat Home to Roost in Illinois: A Success Story Rooms 42, 43Jeff Peyton • Sarah Livesay • Sarah Coulton Dogs: Bumblebees' Best Friends Rooms 54, 56, 58Lindsay Hayward • Laura Holder Calumet Marsh Birds Help Us Restore Urban Wetlands Room 45Anastasia Rahlin • Stephanie Beilke • Alex Loepke The Chicago Region: A Critical Migratory Bird Corridor Room 27Eric Secker • Bob Fisher How to Identify Anything: Using iNaturalist to Give and Get Help With Species ID Room 26cassi saari Think Outside: No Box Required! Room 47Derek Gronlund • Jenny Kamm Spotting Snakes and Calling Frogs: Training Citizen Scientists to Inform Natural Resource Management Decisions Room 49Susan Lawrence • Spencer Campbell • Deborah Link Illinois Is On Fire! Room 44John McCabe Make Biochar! Improving Soils by Carbonizing Invasive Biomass and Restoring Ecosystems Room 46Brian Ohsowski Planting Natives on Septic Systems Rooms 52, 53Rob Kretz • Bill Carter When is a Native Not a Native? Rooms 40, 41Imeña Valdes Village Gems: Green Infrastructure in Buffalo Grove Room 50Jeff Weiss • Jim Warnstedt • Karl Rosenberg Bringing the Savanna to Our Homes Room 48Julia Bunn What's Happening to the Rusty Patched Bumblebee? An Adaptable NGSS Experience for Grades 6-12 Room 51Laura Stamp

11:15am CST

What's Up with Super Seniors? Rooms 55, 57Claudia L. Gunter Public Art as a Conduit for Science, Nature, Conservation and Biodiversity. Rooms 54, 56, 58Sharon Bladholm Heavy Metal Contamination Within Wetland Avian Guilds in the Forest Preserves of Cook County Room 49Melina Frezados The History and Future of an Urban Population of Black-Crowned Night Herons in Chicago’s Lincoln Park Room 27Henry Adams Wetland and Waterbird Monitoring at the Forbes Biological Station Room 50Joshua Osborn Where Have All the Birds Gone? Rooms 25, 24James Herkert Now That's Dedication Rooms 42, 43Matt Evans • Paul Soderholm • Marianne Hahn • Lorna Gladstone Recruiting Volunteers: How Park Districts are a Gateway to volunteering for the Nature-Curious Room 45Lee Helmer • Annabel Helmer-Lynn Microplastic Microbes: The Unspoken Danger of Microplastics Room 44Natalie Lynn Lichtenbert New Tools to Capture and Track Your Restoration Work! Room 26Mark Johnston Photography Surveys of Pollinating Insects Room 47Angella Moorehouse Tracking the Progress of a Restoration Rooms 52, 53Judy Pollock Enhancing Pollinator Habitat, Beyond Best Management Practices Rooms 30, 31David Bart Kill Tough Weeds; Not Prized Plants! Room 48John Lampe Bong Canyon and Other Nifty Finds in the Lake Michigan Ravines Room 46Greg Spyreas Postage Stamp Prairies: How To Win Pollinator Friends and Influence Neighbors Rooms 28, 29Mike Bryson Modeling Water Level Rise on Southern Lake Michigan Rooms 40, 41Sophia Vela NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!!!! Conservation Internships Reimagined Room 51Kimberly Elsenbroek • Megan Oropeza

12:00pm CST

Health, Equity, and Nature Accelerator Rooms 54, 56, 58Natalia Ospina An Unlikely Genius - George Fell and the Founding of the Illinois Nature Preserves System Rooms 25, 24Arthur Pearson Public Art & Conservation - Engaging the Community Through Larger Than Life Bird Murals Room 47Jennifer Kuroda Bats and Bat Monitoring in the Forest Preserves of Cook County Rooms 30, 31Rebecca Collings • Craig Billington "Guiding" Communities to Bird-friendly Building Design Room 49Annette Prince • Claire Halpin Caring in Public: Visualizing Community-Managed Open Space as Social Infrastructure Room 48Benjamin Helphand • Robin Cline Learning to Live with Wildlife Room 46Laura Kammin The Neighborly Mullet: Business in the Front, Party in the Back / How to Design a Native Landscape Your Neighbors Will Appreciate Rooms 28, 29Dave Neu CAPTURE: Calumet Animal and Pathogen Training Urban Research Experience Rooms 55, 57Adam Ferguson Updating S-ranks for Rare and Listed Plants in Illinois Rooms 52, 53Brian Charles Wildlife Health: Integrating Health Into Wildlife Population Monitoring Room 50John Winter Army Lake: the discovery of a 'Grade A' oak woodland remnant Rooms 42, 43Christos Economou • Matt Evans Thirty-four Years of Change in Two Managed Oak Savannas in McHenry County IL. Room 27Thomas Simpson Assigning Value to Native Trees & Shrubs Room 45James Faupel How Community Scientists are Making a Difference for Endangered Monarch Butterflies in Their Gardens...and You Can Too! Room 26Erika Hasle • Karen Klinger Spanish TreeKeepers: Increasing Tree Stewardship and Advocacy on Chicago's Southwest Side Room 51Al De Reu Restoring Powderhorn Lake by Connecting to Wolf Lake Room 44Troy Showerman • Servando Moreno The Plant Grant: Bringing Native Plants to Schoolyards Rooms 40, 41Allison Azmy

12:30pm CST

LUNCH

1:30pm CST

Introduction to Advocacy: Planting the Seeds of Change Room 49Chris Kessler Speaking for Earth: A Poetry Reading Rooms 54, 56, 58Hila Ratzabi Splish Splash! Join Us for a Forest Bath Rooms 55, 57Alison Paul • Jess Rodriguez BatTracker: Community Driven Research to Monitor Chicago's Bats Room 48Liza Lehrer Volunteer Successes in Monitoring the Endangered Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Year One Rooms 42, 43Kelly Schultz • Alma Schrage Kestrels, Raptors and Heavy Metals Rooms 40, 41Charles Rizzo The Urban Waterbird: Understanding the Ecology and Behavior of Black-crowned Night-herons to Improve Our Ability to Manage and Conserve the Species. Rooms 28, 29Mike Ward • Michael Avara • Brad Semel 13.1 Miles, 300 Trees, One Day, Hundreds of Volunteers Room 50Tristan Shaw Keys for Keeping Trees: Methods For Bridging Tree Care and Community Engagement Rooms 52, 53Mia Howerton • Natalie Burgos Lessons Learned at the Ballard Nature Center: Restoration, Funding and Education - Oh My! Room 51Sami Childerson Somme Woods -- The Power of Community: How Steward Leaders Take a Community Approach to the Restoration of Savannas and WoodlandS Rooms 25, 24Eriko Kojima • Jim Hensel • Sai Ramakrishna • Christos Economou • Emma Leavens • Rebeccah Hartz • Stephanie Place • Donna Wittert BotanyBlitz 2022 - How are our native orchids faring? Room 46Kathleen Garness Callery Pear: How did we get here? What do we do now? Room 27Pat Hayes Sand Habitats From Scratch: Restoring Sand Prairie and Savanna on Former Farmland in Hennepin, Illinois Room 26Vera Leopold • Anna Braum Full Circle: Lessons Learned Growing Native Plants for Stewardship Projects Rooms 30, 31Edward Warden • Charlotte Blome • Julie Taylor Can MWRD Lands Do More to Promote Biodiversity? Room 45Judy Pollock • Dana Harbaugh Walleye Propagation Program Room 44Steve Silic Early Childhood Skill Development in the Natural World Room 47Katie Wallace

2:15pm CST

Ending Wildlife Killing Contests in Illinois Room 45Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila • Jane McBride Queer Ecology in Practice; Nature Beyond the Binary Rooms 25, 24Dani Abboud • Jenna John Without You the Endangered Species Act Doesn't Work Room 27Amy Doll • Samantha Chavez Walking & Writing on the Margins of Where We Live Rooms 55, 57Michael McColly Grazing Bison and Grassland Birds: A Public-Private Partnership at Pleasant Valley Conservation Area Rooms 52, 53Brenna Ness Using New Technologies to Advance Bird Conservation in Chicagoland and Beyond Rooms 42, 43Daniel Suarez • Jennifer Fuller • Mikko Jimenez Biodiversity and Community in Calumet Room 51Chris Bourbois • Mario Longoni How to Make Change: Conservation Success Stories Room 44Megan Dunning • Spencer Campbell Specimens as the Spark Room 50Sarah Anderson • Melissa Siska Building a Community of Science: Stories from App-based Participatory Science in Chicago Rooms 54, 56, 58Edward Warden • Elsa Anderson • Matt Mulligan • Phil Nicodemus • Sophie Taddeo Seed Sourcing Strategies for Restoration Under Climate Change: Tools and Next Steps Rooms 30, 31Iza Redlinski • Stephanie Frischie • Anna Braum • Becky Barak • Pati Vitt Wildlife Field Techniques Training Rooms 40, 41Charles Rizzo • Mike Neri Discovering the Secrets of Oak Ecosystems Rooms 28, 29Stephen Packard Identification of Oaks of the Chicago Region Room 47David Shepard Advocating for Environmental Change in Your Community...One Plant at a Time Room 26Catherine Bryla • Mark Hochsprung Trees are Good, But How Much Better are Forests? The Health, Social and Climate Benefits of the Miyawaki Method in Urban Forestry Room 49Christine Dannhausen-Brun • Sheetal Rao • Christine Diploma-Hernandez Impacts of Biochar and Invasive Macrophytes on Wetland Salinity Room 48Brian Ohsowski • Kristina Tsakos • Spencer Dzyacki • Madi Palmquist • Sky Roxo Deer Ears & Owl Eyes: Five Senses Forest Therapy Walks for Early Childhood, Families, & Youth Room 46Laura Kamedulski • Retta Hennessy

3:15pm CST

Wild City; Human Ecosystem Rooms 52, 53Wyatt Widmer Fostering A Sense of Place on the Little Calumet River: The African American Heritage Water Trail, and a Community Gathering Space Room 27Lillian Holden • Juliette Tyson Soundwalking as Ecolgical Practice Rooms 55, 57Eric Leonardson • Alex Braidwood • Linda Keane Where Have All The Botanists Gone? Room 46Bill McKnight Beespotter Update: Bumblebee Sightings and Historical Comparison Room 44Terry Miesle • Michael McKelvey Protecting our Stronghold for Birds: Management Priorities in the Chicago Region Rooms 40, 41Eric Secker Raptor Migration in Northeastern Illinois - What Have We Learned Rooms 42, 43Vic Berardi The Legacy of Monty and Rose: The Birds That Inspired ‘Sharing Our Shore-Waukegan.’ A Model That Uses Partnerships Among Cities, Nature Groups, and Community Organizations to Create Synergy and Maximize Conservation... Room 45Diane Rosenberg • Barbara Waller • Refugio Mariscal • Lisa May • Glen Moss • Jane Ferry • Ty Rohrer The Phantom Menace: Poaching In The Preserves Rooms 25, 24John McCabe Abutilon to Zizia: the Science of Plant Lists Room 47Jack Shouba Monitoring in Action (or, Why Collect a Bunch of Data if You're Not Going to Use it?) Room 49Karen Glennemeier • Kevin Scheiwiller • Justin Pepper Bring Nature to Life - How to Build Healthy Resilient Ecosystems Without Complete Dependence Upon Herbicide Rooms 30, 31Ryan Anderson • Nick Fuller Challenges in Sourcing Native Material From a Growers Perspective Room 26Kelsay Shaw Insect Conservation: Life and Death by a Thousand Cuts Rooms 28, 29Negin Almassi Conservation@Home: A Collaboration of Common Goals Rooms 54, 56, 58Nina Baki • Valerie Kehoe • Gemini Bhalsod Livers of the Rivers: What it Takes to Make Freshwater Mussels Famous Room 51Keriann Dubina • Scott Meister • Glenn Perricone • Jennifer Rydzewski The Mighty Muskrat - Unsung Bird Conservation Hero? Room 48Leo Gaskins Gitche Gumee and the Great Lakes Room 50Deborah Chabi

4:15pm CST

Saving Bell Bowl Prairie Room 27Jillian Neece • Robbie Telfer • Laura Stamp • Kim Johnsen • Paul Baits • Jennifer Kuroda • Samantha Chavez Documentary Rethinking our Relationship with Nature during the Anthropocene Epoch of the Chicago Region and Beyond Rooms 54, 56, 58Philip Willink • John McNeill • David McGowan My Love Affair With Chicago Nature in Pictures, Poetry, and Prose Rooms 25, 24Mike MacDonald Seeing Seeds Rooms 55, 57Sharon Bladholm Be a Good Neighbor to Bats! Rooms 52, 53Jen Woronecki-Ellis Southern Lake Michigan Bees and Their Ecology Room 47Laura Rericha-Anchor Managing Urban Lakes for Wetland Birds Room 49James Phillips Creating Your Own Nature TV Show Room 46Suzy Lyttle • Chad Merda Join the Dark Side of Nature: Protecting the Nighttime Environment Room 26Ken Walczak • Mary Busch Conservation Corps Monitoring Results: Twelve Years of Ecological Restoration in the Calumet Region Forest Preserves Room 44Alice Brandon • Dan Spencer • Brenda Elmore Effects of Prescribed Fire and Mowing on Grassland Snake Abundance and Diversity Room 48Allison Sacerdote-Velat Invasive weed management: Discussing strategies and lessons learned Rooms 28, 29Bill Kleiman • Juli Mason • Adam Rex • Kevin Scheiwiller Stewardship and Science in Partnership: a Panel Discussion on Building Collaborations to Strengthen our Conservation Outcomes Rooms 42, 43Elizabeth Bach • Pete Jackson • Spencer Campbell • Emma Leavens • Kim Roman Urban Coyote Study Rooms 30, 31Chris Anchor Chicago’s Best Hope Room 45Colleen McVeigh • Lorena Lopez • Iza Redlinski The Human Dimension of Urban Wildlife Room 50Nicky Strahl Engaging Youth as Problem-Solvers and Scientists Through the Wild Mile: Group Collaboration Led by Urban Rivers Room 51Maya Kelly • Stephanie Mueller Introducing, EL4IL: Environmental Literacy For Illinois Rooms 40, 41Brekke Bounds

5:00pm CST

Live NatureSound General Performance Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Alex Braidwood A Postage Stamp Prairie Survives: Changes in Plant Diversity at James Woodworth Prairie (UIC), 1979-2020 Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Gavin McNicol • Erin Faulkner Analysis of the Population Structure and Migration Habits of the Northern Leopard Frog (L. pipiens) at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Gretchen Brinkman • Nicholas Troendle Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in Golf Course Ponds of the Chicago Metropolitan Region Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Ryan Johnson • Martin Berg • Joseph Milanovich Birdsongs - Sounds of the Mississippi Flyway Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Jennifer Kuroda • Micky Torpedo Impact of Restoration on Ecosystem Drought Resistance Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Regina Mae Francia Investigating Bird Demography in a Post-Industrial Wetland Complex through a MAPS Banding Station Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Lila Kono Kim Fried • Anastasia Rahlin • Stephanie Beilke • Claire Halpin Out For Lunch: Generalism in Pollinators of a Mixed Mating Species Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Kate Tillotson Physiological Effects of Heavy Metals in Spotted Turtles Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Jessica Lindberg • Joseph Milanovich • Marlen Terrazas Predicting the Consequences of Global Climate Change on Aquatic Snakes in the Midwest Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Ella Janson • Jessica Lindberg • Joseph Milanovich Quantifying Home Ranges of Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata) in Northwestern Indiana Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Marlen Terrazas • Jessica Lindberg • Joseph Milanovich • Trang Nguyen • Haydn Notario Reintroduction of Megatibicen dorsatus (Giant Grassland Cicada) to a Prairie Reconstruction in Ford County, IL Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Scott Saffer • Phoebe Davies • Prudence Davies • Mitch Woods • Trace Rogers • Hunter Davies Stream Macroinvertebrate Diversity Near Suburban Development vs With a Forest Buffer Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Brendan Covell • Egna Setiawan • Abbie Schrotenboer The Effect of Ecosystem Restoration on Soil Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Alexander Czempinski The Influence of Plant Functional Diversity on Bee Functional Diversity in a Restored Prairie Ecosystem Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Lizzy Small The Uncommon Nighthawk Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Edward Warden The Use of Endangered Midwestern Prairie and Savanna Ecosystems by Bumble Bees of Conservation Concern Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Rachel Christopherson • Bethany Johnson Understanding Phenology: A Long-term Project to Monitor Seasonal Changes and Inform Management Practices Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Adam Rembert Urban Flooding Baseline for the South Suburbs Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Cyatharine Alias • Paulina Vaca Using Radio Telemetry to Track the Movements of the Endangered Ornate Box Turtle of Iroquois State County Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Rachel Christopherson • Seth Witham Where the Buffalo Clover Roam Rooms 21-23 & 32-34Ingrid Felsl
 
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