Annual Banquet
& Conference
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| 7:30 a.m. | Check-In and Walk-In Registration Opens |
| 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast
(included in registration fee) Buy raffle tickets View raffle and auctions items, visit exhibitor booths. |
| 9:00 Conference Begins |
Keynote Speaker: Pauline Drobney "From Brome, Beans and Bovine, to Bluestem, Blazingstar and Bison" Pauline Drobney is an Iowa native, and has been developing her love for prairies throughout her life. She has worked as a natural area consultant, a Refuge Biologist, and is currently the Land Management and Research Demonstration Biologist for Prairies and Savannas for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She was part of the team charged with developing the first tallgrass prairie and savanna ecological restoration on a scale of 8,600 acres on former Iowan farmland. She was co-founder and first president of the Iowa Prairie Network. |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Sessions (4 concurrent presentations) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Sessions (4 concurrent presentations) |
| 11:45 - 1:00 | Lunch - On your own |
| 1:00 - 1:45 | Sessions (4 concurrent presentations) |
| 2:00 - 2:45 | Sessions (3 concurrent presentations) |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Roundtable discussions (open question and answer session with a panel of experts |
| 4:00 - 5:30 | Social Hour Final chance at raffle and auctions items, visit exhibitor booths. |
List of selected presentations
| Speaker | Presentation title |
| Armund Bartz | “Prairie Restoration and Reconstruction: Implications for Grassland Birds-a case study” |
| Jesse Bennett | “Invasive Species: A Management Perspective” |
| Jessica Bolwahn | “Up in Smoke: Fire’s Role in Prairie Management” |
| Bruno Borsari | “Energy from Prairies and Humus in Between!” |
| Kurt Brownell | “Sand Prairie Ecology and Restoration on Army Lands" |
| Jaime Edwards | “Bluff Prairie Management in the Driftless Area of Minnesota” |
| John Harrington | “Prototype for a Prairie Remnant Database” |
| Bob Hay | “Sand and Sun Loving Herps of the Prairie” |
| George Howe | “Preserving Land You Love: Case Studies in Permanent Land Protection” |
| Christina Isenring | “The WI Natural Heritage Inventory Program-What is It?” |
| Karl Legler | “Introduction to Prairie Butterflies -- How to get Started” |
| Abbie Meyer | “Identifying a Remnant Native Goat Prairie on Your Land” |
| James Theler | “Pre-Columbian Native American Adaptations to the Prairie-savanna Landscape of Western Wisconsin” |
| Tom Volk | “Little Fungi on the Prairie” |
| Matt Zine | “Large scale prescribed burns: pros, cons, and related issues” |
| Panel | Roundtable topic |
| Prairie Management - with an emphasis on hill prairies | |
| Land Protection | |
| Prairie Planting |