Celebrate native landscaping and
Wild Ones’ 25th anniversary
this summer!
• Sessions on Gardens, How-to, Critters, Arts, and Science.
• Keynote by nationally known ecologist and author, Robert Michael Pyle.
• Lovely setting at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union.
• Co-sponsored by Madison Wild Ones and UW-Madison Arboretum.
Registration
Click here to download a registration form.
• Send a check payable to Madison Wild Ones to:
Madison Wild Ones, 1143 E. Johnson St. #2, Madison, WI 53703.
Questions: contact Sue Ellingson, suellingson(at)sbcglobal.net, 608 259-1824
or Marian Farrior, mlfarrior(at)wisc.edu, 608 265-5214.
Keynote Robert Michael Pyle on...
The Heart of the Matter: Wild Landscapes, Intimacy,
and the “Extinction of Experience”
Everyone who cares about the wild can remember a special place of inspiration
and discovery, a place where intimate contact with creatures, plants, soil, and water
made all the difference. Today such places are disappearing. We run a serious risk
of alienation and still more losses. It’s an insidious syndrome Bob Pyle calls
the “Extinction of Experience.”
Native Landscapers have a special opportunity to save, restore, and create the kinds
of places where wonder lives on and hearts warm to the natural world. Making opportunities
for intimacy with the wild, we preserve the chance of a better world for all species.
8/6 Friday evening
| 5:30-6:00 | - Registration |
| 6:00 | - Informal gathering, Union Terrace |
| 8:00-9:00 | - Wild Ones national meeting |
| 8:45-9:30 | - Registration |
| 9:30-10:45 | - Session 1 |
| 11:00-12:15 | - Session 2 |
| 12:15-1:45 | - Lunch on your own. Bring a bag lunch to attend Invasive Plant Assn. of Wis. annual meeting. |
| 1:45-3:00 | - Session 3 |
| 3:15-4:30 | - Session 4 |
| 4:30-5:15 | - Social hour |
| 5:15-6:00 | - Keynote address |
| 6:00-7:00 | - Dinner |
| 6:30-7:30 | - Wild Ones presentations |
| 7:00-9:00 | - Wild Ones leadership workshop |
| 9:00~4:00 | - Full day tours, includes lunch |
| 10:00~1:00 | - Half day tours, no lunch |
| • Lowell Inn, 610 Langdon St., 2 blocks, $70-$80, 866-301-1753 |
| • Sheraton, 706 John Nolen Dr., 2 mi., $60-$82, 888-625-5144 |
| • AmericInn, 101 W. Broadway, 6 mi., $81-$86, 800-634-3444 |
| 9:30-10:45 | 11:00-12:15 | 1:45-3:00 | 3:15-4:30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1G. The Joys of a Totally Native Yard • by Pat Armstrong Pat started with a lot that had one native plant—a bur oak tree—and created a totally native yard. Now her yard has 300 species of wild-flowers, grasses, trees, and shrubs. Pat Armstrong is an ecologist and owner of Prairie Sun Consultants in Naperville, Illinois. She is a Wild Ones national board member. |
2G. Fabulous Ferns • by Tim Kessenich Learn how to grow your own ferns from spores. Tim will also introduce fern anatomy and identification. Tim Kessenich has been growning ferns and woodland wildflowers at his home in Madison for over 25 years. He has propagated native plants for projects in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum and Governor Dodge State Park. |
3G. How plants get along and why we should, too. • by Roy Diblik Roy offers ideas for using native plants along with the garden-store varieties left in your yard. He’ll tell how garden goals guide plant choice and planting methods and how garden layout affects maintenance. Roy Diblik is co-owner of Northwind Perennial Farm near Lake Geneva, Wis. | 4G. Wow! Before-and-after panel • moderated by Molly Fifield-Murray Before and after stories by native gardeners who took on their ho-hum yards and turned them into something remarkable. Molly Fifield-Murray is the UW Arboretum outreach manager and a professional landscape architect. |
| 1H. Slow Gardens • by Nancy Aten Nancy Aten starts with a local natural ecosystem—oak savanna—that has thrived for a good long time without us. She talks about slow gardens—slow in the sense of gardens savored over time, that respect scarce resources, that are full of flavor and diversity. Nancy Aten is a designer and landscape steward in Milwaukee. She is a new Wild Ones national board member. |
2H. Sow It and Reap—Seed collecting, cleaning, and propagating • by Jerry Gunderson Nature's bounty is wrapped up in tiny, perfect packages. Jerry will show you how to open them. Learn how to collect, clean, and propagate seed. Jerry Gunderson has been landscaping with natives in the Madison area for 30 years, with a focus on small areas of prairie plantings. He is an active member of Madison Wild Ones. |
3H. Creating a Spirit of Place—Native landscape design
•John Gishnock, Jake Blue, Allison Eyring-Green A primer on Prairie Style landscape design, first developed by Jens Jensen. Learn features of prairie, wetland, savanna and woodland ecosystems that you can incorporate into your home landscape and get started on your own design. Gishnock, Blue, and Eyring-Green are landscape designers at Applied Ecological Services in Brodhead, Wis. |
4H. Workaholics—Rain gardens do it all • by Steve Banovetz Rain gardens provide beauty, diversity and habitat, and clean and infiltrate rainwater. Learn why it's important and how to do it in your own yard. Steve Banovetz is the Senior Ecologist and part owner of Agrecol, a native plant nursery near Madison. Agrecol is a Wild Ones business member. |
| 1C. Small Wonders— Butterflies
•by Bob Pyle Learn about butterflies and other small wonders as components of native landscapes. Bob Pyle is an award-winning author, speaker, professor, and ecologist. He will also give the keynote address for the Go Wild! conference. |
2C. Home Sweet Home— Creating habitat in the city • by Craig Tufts Your yard can provide a living for many creatures. It doesn't matter where you live or how much space you have. Discover how to create a thriving habitat in your backyard. Craig Tufts is the National Wildlife Federation's chief naturalist and honorary board member of Wild Ones. |
3C. They eat bugs! Frogs and toads in the garden • by Randy Korb Live amphibians keep the frog workshop hopping. Find out about frogs' and toads' urban and wetland habitats, their calls, reproductive life cycle, distribution, and more. Randy Korb is an environmental educator and author in Green Bay. His book and CD is "Wisconsin Frogs." |
4C. Bee Mine—Pollinators at work. • by Craig Tufts The bounty of seeds in fall is largely thanks to pollinators who visited flowers during summer. Learn about bees, butterflies, wasps, and other pollinators, and the habitats they need to succeed. Craig Tufts is the National Wildlife Federation's chief naturalist and honorary board member of Wild Ones. |
| 1A. 1000 Words–Nature photography inside • by Daryl Sherman Photography begins in the mind. Daryl Sherman will explain the theory and mechanics of nature photography: equipment, depth of field, lighting, and composition. Daryl Sherman has taught photography since 1961. |
2A. 1001 Words–Nature photography outside • by Daryl Sherman Take a trek into the wild nature outside the Union. Bring your equipment along to this session: tripod, camera, close-focusing lens, etc. Set up and take photos. If you have a digital camera, you’ll get feedback right away. Daryl Sherman has taught photography since 1961. |
3A. Nature Journaling • by Susan Kilmer Nature journaling was a tool used by Darwin, Leopold, Muir, Carson and others to record nature's large and small events. Explore their methods and learn the primary tools for beginning your own nature journal. Susan Kilmer is the Staff Horticulturist for the UW-Madison Arboretum. |
4A. The Art of the Garden Floor—Patios, walks, and walls
• by Jon Adams-Kollitz Jon shows how inspiration from nature can aid in the design of paving and walls in the natural garden setting. Jon Adams-Kollitz is a registered landscape architect and owner of the design/build company Formecology |
| 1S. Biological effects of pesticides • by Warren Porter Pesticides can influence fertility, aggression, immune response, developmental patterns, and more. Learn about the effects of these pervasive chemicals on animals and people—especially on our children. Warren Porter is a zoology professor at UW-Madison. |
2S. Generalists, Specialists, and the Vanishing Present • by Mark Leach Can our last best wildflower places persist? Long-term studies are revealing surprising changes in what's left of our prairies, forests, and other fragments of native vegetation. Mark Leach will guide our discovery of patterns of change and help deepen our understanding of underlying processes. Mark Leach is lead ecologist at UW Arboretum. He's filling in for Don Waller. |
3S. Ecology Underground—Soil and the critters in it • by Teri Balser Discover what the bacteria and other living things in the soil do for native landscapes and for you. Teri Balser is a soil science professor at UW-Madison. |
4S. Environmental Principles for the Backyard • by Evelyn Howell Learn to read the landscape to apply "best practice" principles to create and manage enjoyable living spaces. Design a native landscape with the environment in mind. Evelyn Howell is Chair of the UW-Madison Landscape Architecture Dept. |
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