PPSOC Speakers at Fall Meetings
For the first several years, fall speakers
were members of the PPSOC including Vivian Maxson, Tim Keller, Margaret Knight, Clint
Strang, LyleCrowe, Randy Nyboer, George Bouska, Linda Graber, Pete Sciacsek, and Thelma
Carpenter.
After 1985, speakers at the fall meeting were
the following:
Cassandra Rogers,
biologist, IL Dept. Transportation, slide/tape program “Tallgrass Prairies of Lee
County.”
Ray Skow, “Plants
Through the Seasons at the Freeport Prairie Nature Preserve.”
David Barrow, NIU,
“Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity: The Rhetoric of Restoration.”
Alan Branhagen, Deputy
Director of Resource Development, Winnebago County Forest Preserve District,
“Butterflies of Northern Illinois.”
Dr. Scott Robinson,
Illinois Natural History Survey, talk on the results of recent bird surveys in
Lowden-Miller State Forest.
Ann Haverstock, Morton
Arboretum’s Environmental Education & Illinois Nature Conservancy’s breeding
bird monitor at Nachusa Grasslands, “Mammals in Winter.”
Dr. Bohdan Dziadyk,
Professor of Biology, Augustana College, “Introduction to Ethnobotany of the
Prairie.”
Randy Woessner, wildlife
photographer, slides on the birds and mammals of northwest Illinois.
Ed Stirling, Executive
Director of the Natural Land Institute, Rockford, discussion on NLI’s recent
acquisition of Nygren Wetland.
Marc Miller, Watershed
Organizer for Prairie Rivers Network, discussion of the value of healthy rivers, rivers in
history, & effects of technological changes on rivers.
Randy Nyboer, IL Dept.
Natural Resources Natural Heritage Regional Administrator, “Loess Hill Prairies of
Illinois.”
Lloyd Hornbostyl, Roscoe
Township Trustee, “Planning for Development.”
Mike Engel, wildlife
biologist with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, “The Karner Blue Butterfly and Its
Habitat.”
Jerry Paulson, Executive
Director of Natural Land Institute, “The Nygren Wetland Preserve.”
John Walk, entomologist,
Freeport, “Exotic Dancers.”
Todd Tucker, Byron
Forest Preserve naturalist, the prairie of
BFPD.
Randy Nyboer, “What
I Found at Lost Mound.”
Richard Benning, Youth
Education Coordinator, Severson Dells Environmental Education Center, Rockford,
“Nature and the Human Spirit.”
Debra Carey, Lee County
Natural Area Guardians, “Ryan Wetlands and Sand Prairie in Lee County.”
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