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The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, February 25, 2023!

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With dozens presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new. Use the schedule below to help plan out your day at Wild Things 2023!

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things. For additional information on the 2023 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.


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Erika Hasle

Field Museum
Lead Conservation Ecologist
Chicago, IL
Websitehttps://fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/181
Erika Hasle is a Lead Conservation Ecologist with the Field Museum's Keller Science Action Center. Erika brings their background in both ecology and Geographic Information Systems to the Action Center's Chicago Region Conservation Programs. Recent projects include using GIS to support habitat stewardship, in the Kankakee Sands Ecoregion, and conservation planning for monarch butterflies and bumblebees in urban areas. Central to all of Erika's work is an interest in the power of privately heald land to support conservation and quality of life for local residents. Erika has a B.S. from Roger Williams University and a M. S. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan.
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

When is a Native Not a Native? Rooms 40, 41Imeña Valdes

11:15am CST

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

12:00pm CST

How Community Scientists are Making a Difference for Endangered Monarch Butterflies in Their Gardens...and You Can Too! Room 26Erika Hasle • Karen Klinger

2:15pm CST

Queer Ecology in Practice; Nature Beyond the Binary Rooms 25, 24Dani Abboud • Jenna John

3:15pm CST

Beespotter Update: Bumblebee Sightings and Historical Comparison Room 44Terry Miesle • Michael McKelvey Challenges in Sourcing Native Material From a Growers Perspective Room 26Kelsay Shaw

4:15pm CST

Saving Bell Bowl Prairie Room 27Jillian Neece • Robbie Telfer • Laura Stamp • Kim Johnsen • Paul Baits • Jennifer Kuroda • Samantha Chavez