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Native Landscaping Conferences |
Donna VanBuecken, Executive Director PO Box 1274 Appleton, WI 54912-1274 Phone: 877-394-9453 Email: execdirector@wildones.orgor visit us personally at the Wild Ones Institute for Learning and Development also known as the WILD Center at 2285 Butte des Morts Beach Rd in Neenah, Wisconsin
The first 2012 Wild Ones national Quarterly Board Meeting will be held will be held via webconference on February 11 at 9AM. The subject of the meeting will be general operations. Contact the headquarters office for more details.
The second 2012 Wild Ones national Quarterly Board Meeting will be held will be held at a Wild Ones Chapter location on May 12 at 9AM. The subject of the meeting will be general operations. Contact the headquarters office for more details.
The third 2012 Wild Ones national Quarterly Board Meeting and the Wild Ones 2012 Annual Membership Meeting will be held on August 17-18, 2012 at the WILD Center in Neenah, Wisconsin. On Saturday and Sunday, August 18 and 19, there will be a series of marketing workshops held specifically for chapter boards. All Wild Ones members are invited. Contact the headquarters office for more details.
The 2012 Annual Wild Ones Photo Contest will also be held in conjunction with the Annual Wild Ones Membership Meeting. Go to for details. Entries are due August 3.
The fourth Wild Ones national Quarterly Board Meeting will be held will be held via webconference on November 10, 2012 at 9AM. The subject of the meeting will be general operations. Contact the headquarters office for more details.
If you have a conference you would like to have listed on this webpage, please send an e-mail containing the appropriate text to conference listing.
For additional conferences, go to the list maintained by the National Park Service at Plant Conservation Alliance.
Apr 13, 2012 (Fri)
The Amphibian Taxon Advisory Group’s annual meeting will be held on April 13th in Miami, Florida at the Center for North American Herpetology St. George Island, Florida. In an effort to allot adequate time for presenters, reduce redundancy and stimulate discussion, the steering committee is requesting abstracts from presenters. Both oral and poster presentations will be accepted. All presenters must register for the ATAG meeting. Abstracts should be submitted electronically by 16 March 2012.
Abstract and registration forms. We look forward to your submissions and hope to see you in Miami!
Jun 07, 2012 (Thu)
The 22nd annual Native Plants in the Landscape Conference at Millersville, PA will be held June 7-9, 2012 at Millersville University. There will be:
* Inspirational Field Trips
* Educational Workshops
* Engaging Topics of Concern
* Native Plant & Book Sale
* Native Plant Merchandise
Plant & Book Sale - Open to the Public
Friday, June 8, 2012 - 4:30pm to 7:00pm
Saturday, June 9, 2012 - 8:00am to Noon
Assistanceships Available
Continuing Education Credits Available
For more details go to conference website
Jun 11, 2012 (Mon)
Isile Royale Botany Workshop, June 11-16, 2012. Experience four days in Lake Superior's Isle Royale National Park and learn to identify the diverse plants that live on this incredible island!
BOTANY WORKSHOP INFORMATION:
This special botany workshop, sponsored by the Isle Royale & Keweenaw Parks Association (IRKPA), and taught by botanist Janet Marr, is open to anyone with beginning/intermediate knowledge of plant identification who is interested in learning to identify the early summer native flora of this species-rich Lake Superior island.
Workshop participants will spend four days on Isle Royale learning native plant species, using such tools as a dichotomous key and hand lens to identify plants. Other topics will include discussion of island plant communities, rare species, ecology, and invasive species.
Most workshop activities will take place outdoors. Optional evening sessions will also be offered to review plants learned earlier. Field trips will include Tobin Harbor, Scoville Point, and Raspberry Island, places that are all located in the vicinity of Rock Harbor.
Workshop attendees will meet in Houghton, Michigan, on Monday (11 June) afternoon and travel from Houghton to Rock Harbor (on Isle Royale) on the Ranger III boat on Tuesday (12 June). Participants will return to Houghton on the Ranger III on Saturday (16 June).
REQUIREMENTS:
Workshop participants should be able to walk up to 7 miles in one day with a daypack on rocky, sometimes steep, trails and bedrock, sometimes slippery, shoreline.
INSTRUCTOR:
Botanist Janet Marr, the workshop instructor, has had many years of experience studying plants across Michigans Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale. Janet taught the 2007 - 2011 Isle Royale botany workshops as well as many botany, aquatic, and wetland plant workshops in Michigans Keweenaw Peninsula. She is co-author of the Isle Royale Natural History Association's Island Life, an Isle Royale Nature Guide.
ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS. Past botany workshops have filled up very quickly so sign up soon! Contact Kristine Bradof at 906-482-7860 or kbradof@irkpa.org for more information about workshop registration or to register. Contact Janet Marr at 906-337-5529 or jkmarr@mtu.edufor details about the workshop itself.
BOTANY WORKSHOP FEE:
$675 per person if registered by March 5, 2012 ($25 discount for IRKPA members;
for information on becoming a IRKPA member).
$699 per person if registered after March 5, 2012 ($25 discount for IRKPA members; for information on becoming a IRKPA member).
A $200 deposit is required to reserve your place in the workshop and may be sent to the Isle Royale & Keweenaw Parks Association, Attn: Kristine Bradof, 800 Lakeshore Dr., Houghton, MI 49931. The balance is due by April 17, 2012.
A cancellation fee of $75 will be charged for cancellations between May 1 and May 31, 2012. There will be no refund for cancellations made on or after June 1, 2011.
The fee for the botany workshop covers instruction, camping, meals on the island, notebook, Slavick/Jankes Flora of Isle Royale, and transportation to and from Houghton, MI on the Ranger III. Participants may travel from Grand Portage, Minnesota, on the Voyager at their own expense. See http://www.isleroyaleboats.com/ for Voyager info.
LODGING/CAMPING:
Participants may camp for free at a Rock Harbor group site for the four nights on the island. You may also stay in the Rock Harbor Lodge or Housekeeping units at your own expense (consider sharing a room with another participant or friend to reduce your lodging cost). For information about lodging (at Rock Harbor Lodge or Housekeeping units), boat rentals, etc. or call 866-644-2003 (winter season) or 906-337-4993 (summer season).
If you wish to share a lodge or housekeeping room, contact Kristine at 906-482-7860 or see their home page at For information about Isle Royale NationalPark or call 906-482-0984.
Jul 27, 2012 (Fri)
Registration for the 4th Annual Midwest Native Plant Conference is now open!
This year's conference will be held at Bergamo Conference Center, located on the beautiful grounds of Mt. Saint John Nature Preserve, in Dayton, Ohio from July 27, 28 & 29, 2012.
Here are some great reasons why you should register for the Midwest Native Plant Conference:
• Learn about native plants and their ecosystems from professionals in their fields
• Shop our native plant vendors for the widest array of native plants available anywhere
• Meet other attendees and share your experiences with native plants
• Visit native areas rich in many species with an experienced guide
• Walk the restored prairie, woodland and meadows of Mt. St. John Preserve during your stay
• Join the morning bird walks and evening walks of discovery
• Meet and talk with our keynote speakers, David Wagner, Marielle Anzelone, and Ian Adams.
• Peruse the booths of nature-related arts and crafts for sale
• Buy a book and have it signed by the author
• Extend your stay and explore Greene County shops, nature areas, Air Force Museum, and towns
• Connect with nature
If you register early, you will reserve your spot, receive a discounted weekend rate, and help to ensure that you will be able attend your favorite field trip. We offer Friday and Saturday only options as well. The conference website offers a conference registration form, a lodging reservation form, bios and program descriptions for all keynote and breakout speakers, and field trip descriptions. Our vendors will be open to the public on Saturday, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Please join us to "Connect with Nature"! The Midwest Native Plant Society.
Aug 05, 2012 (Sun)
Those of us who are both ecologists and herpetologists may have already noticed that next year's annual ESA meeting will be 5-10 August in Portland Oregon, while the spectacular one-every-5-years World Congress of Herpetology is 8-14 August 2012, a mere 315 miles (500 km) away in Vancouver. A little creative scheduling may make it possible for us to enjoy both worlds.
The good folks at ESA recognize that some herpetological ecologists will want to attend both meetings (and present at least at ESA), and would therefore need to leave ESA early to attend WCH. Therefore they make this suggestion:
1) submit a poster abstract (ESA deadline is 23 February 2012)
2) choose "reptiles and amphibians" as your highest ranked choice of theme (#1).
They offer to make one or more poster sessions out of such posters and schedule those sessions for earlier in the week. They can't make a similar promise if people submit talks or choose other themes as their top choice because they could end up scheduled in other sessions.
If you plan to present at WCH as well, note that the deadline is for those abstracts and early registrations is 29 February 2012.
Aug 08, 2012 (Wed)
Those of us who are both ecologists and herpetologists may have already noticed that next year's annual ESA meeting will be 5-10 August in Portland Oregon, while the spectacular one-every-5-years World Congress of Herpetology is 8-14 August 2012, a mere 315 miles (500 km) away in Vancouver. A little creative scheduling may make it possible for us to enjoy both worlds.
The good folks at ESA recognize that some herpetological ecologists will want to attend both meetings (and present at least at ESA), and would therefore need to leave ESA early to attend WCH. Therefore they make this suggestion:
1) submit a poster abstract (ESA deadline is 23 February 2012)
2) choose "reptiles and amphibians" as your highest ranked choice of theme (#1).
They offer to make one or more poster sessions out of such posters and schedule those sessions for earlier in the week. They can't make a similar promise if people submit talks or choose other themes as their top choice because they could end up scheduled in other sessions.
If you plan to present at WCH as well, note that the deadline is for those abstracts and early registrations is 29 February 2012.
Sep 06, 2012 (Thu)
The time and place of this year’s Florida-Georgia Sandhill Working Group meeting have been set!
The Jones Ecological Research Center will be hosting the meeting on Sept. 6-7 (Thursday and Friday). The Thursday session is a solid date at this point, and the Friday session may take place depending on the number of presentations and extent of discussion we have. For those of you in Florida, we will be renting a van (or 2 or 3) to take people from Tall Timbers to the Jones Center to help get around out-of-state travel restrictions. There’ll be a small charge to cover the rental, but it will not be very much. The cost will be reduced significantly if we can find an institution that has a van we can use for this purpose.
Additional details and requests for discussion topics will be coming along later this year. Jim Cox
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