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Program at a Glance

Monday June 26

9:00 to 12:00 - Opening Plenary Session

  • Welcome

  • Keynote – Dr. Laura Jackson, Director Tallgrass Prairie Center, University of Northern Iowa

    • A Lost Cause? Bringing Prairie Back to the Corn Belt

  • Keynote – Eric Lee-Mäder, Co-Director, Pollinator Conservation, Xerces Society

    • Farmers of Forty Centuries: Reconciling Agriculture & Ecology

12:00 to 1:00 – Lunch Buffet

1:00 to 3:00 – Symposium A  Prescribed Fire Seasonality: New Insights from Research on Fire Effects

  • Concurrent Paper Session #1: Prairie Through the Eyes of Diversity & Inclusion AND Private Land Projects

  • Concurrent Paper Session #2: Reconstruction and Planting Techniques

3:30 to 5:30 – Symposium B  Insects: What we don’t know and how you can help!

  • Concurrent Paper Session #3: Prairie Floristics and Plant Communities

  • Concurrent Paper Session #4: Prairie and Regenerative Agriculture

6:00 to 7:30 – Poster Session I

8:00 to 11:00 – Insect Night Lighting at a nearby county park. Sign up at the registration table on Monday.  

 

Tuesday June 27

7:30 to 5:30 – Full-day and half-day field trips

  • You will need read and select a field trip option before you register.

5:30 to 8:30 – BBQ and music from Brad and Kate, Art Fair

 

Wednesday June 28

7:30 to 9:30 – Symposium C  Spirit of the Prairie: Connecting through Storytelling

  • Concurrent Paper Session #5: Insects and Other Invertebrates

  • Concurrent Paper Session #6: Ecology of Grazing and Herbivory

10:00 to 12:00 – Symposium D  What Prairie Can Teach Agriculture: Four Lessons

  • Concurrent Paper Session #7: Forum A  Western Prairie Fringed Orchid Recovery

  • Concurrent Paper Session #8: Prairie for Beginners

1:00 to 3:00 – Symposium E  Insect Apocalypse – Catastrophic Headlines to Meaningful Solutions

  • Concurrent Paper Session #9: Forum B  On Common Ground: A Multidisciplinary Engagement in Iowa’s Loess Hills

  • Concurrent Paper Session #10: Forum C  Born in Crisis: The NRCS and Prairie Reconstruction and Management

3:30 to 5:30 – Symposium F  Savanna and Prairie Restoration in Central Iowa and Illinois

  • Concurrent Paper Session #11: Prairie Education

  • Concurrent Paper Session #12: Plant and Pollinator Ecology

6:00 to 8:00 – Dinner Discussion Groups

 

Thursday June 29

7:30 to 9:30 - Closing Plenary Session and Breakfast Banquet

  • Keynote – Douglas Ladd, Former Director of Conservation, The Nature Conservancy in Missouri

    • Saving the Soul of the Heartland

 10:00 to 12:00 – Symposium G  Prairie and Grassland Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

  • Concurrent Paper Session #13: Prairie Art, Poetry and Literature

  • Concurrent Paper Session #14: Ecology of Fire AND Plant and Pollinator Ecology

12:30 to 2:30 – Symposium H  Working to Sow the Seeds of Successful Prairies: Prairie Reconstruction Initiative!

  • Concurrent Paper Session #15: Prairie Culture and History AND Prairie Conservation and Policy

  • Concurrent Paper Session #16: Plant Biology and Ecology AND Invasive Species Management

2:30 – Conference Closes