Thirty
Years of PPSOC Banquets
1. May
17, 1976, Lorado Taft Field Campus, Vivian Maxson and Tim Keller slide shows.
2, 1977
Dr. Robert Betz
3. 1978 Roger Gustafson
4. May
11, 1979, Lorado Taft, Lynn Stone, naturalist and photographer from Big Rock , His
talk...will reveal the plant and animal life and beauty of prairies.
5. May
9, 1980, Lorado Taft, $6.00,
6. April
27, 1981, $6.50, Stronghold Center, Lydia Meyer, Natural
Land Institute, “The Precious Few,” what is happening in Illinois
to preserve and manage natural areas.
7. April
14, 1982, $7.00, Stronghold, Don Pretzsch, Princeton, IL, Bureau Soil and Water
Conservation District, an active prairie restorer.
8. April
13, 1982, $7.00, Stronghold, Randy Nyboer, Natural Heritage Biologist, illustrated talk
“Managing Illinois Prairies, or How to Be a Successful Arsonist.”
9. 1983
10. April
11, 1984, $7.00, Stronghold,
11. April
10, 1985 (Ten Anniversary Banquet), $7.00, Stronghold, Floyd Swink, The Morton Arboretum,
Lisle, IL, “Prairies as Plant Communities.”
12. April
9, 1986, $7.00, Stronghold, Ron Panzer,
13. April
8, 1987, $7.50, Stronghold, Wayne Pauley, naturalist with Dane County, (Wisconsin) Park
District, “Folklore of Midwest Prairies.”
14. April
13, 1988, $7.50, Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Center, Lorrie Otto, “The American
Woman’s Garden” describing her natural prairie garden and her philosophy in
putting it together.
15. March
22, 1989, $7.50, LOMC, Steve Packard, Director of Science and Stewardship for the
16. April
17, 1990, $8.00, LOMC, Wayne E. Schennum, Natural Resources Manager of the McHenry County
Conservation District , “Prairie Wetlands: Last Bastions of Ecological Diversity in
the Fox River Valley.”
17. April
9, 1991, LOMC, Chris Bronny, naturalist for Byron Forest Preserve District, will discuss
the phenology, ecology, restoration and management of prairies in his experience.**off two
years in banquet count
18. April
23, 1992, LOMC, Jay Friberg, PPSOC President, informal narrative and slides based on his
4-year exploration of Ogle County flora as a Norther Illinois University graduate
student.**past tense in newsletter
19. April
15, 1993, $10.00, LOMC, Ray Schulenberg, retired from Morton Arboretum, Lisle,
20. 1994
21. April
4, 1995, $10.00, LOMC, Dr. Michael Jeffords, Illinois Natural History Survey,
22. April
9, 1996, $10.00, LOMC, John
23. April
15, 1997, $10.00, LOMC, Perle Olsson, “Passion in Your Garden,” She restored her
woodland and converted much Kentucky bluegrass lawn into a garden composed of native
prairie plants.
24. April
14, 1998, $10.00, LOMC, Gerould Wilhelm, co-author of Plants
of the Chicago Region, “What is Restoration and Why Is it Important?”
25. April
13, 1999, $12.00, LOMC, John Schwegman, retired Plant Conservation Program manager for
Illinois Department of Natural Resources, “The Natural Divisions of Illinois and
Exotic Weeds that Threaten their Biota.”
26. 2000,
Lorado Taft
27. April
6, 2001, Lorado Taft, Dietrich Schaaf, Director of Education at the International Crane
Foundation, speak on efforts to establish a second migratory flock of endangered whooping
cranes.
28. April
5, 2002, Taft, Dr. Dan Wenny, Avian Ecologist with
29. April
6, 2003, Taft, Todd Bittner, District Natural Heritage Biologist for Illinois Department
of Natural Resources, “Landscape-Scale Prairie and Wetland Restoration at
30. April
18, 2004, Taft, Jack Pizzo, Pizzo and Associates Ecological Restoration, program on natural area restoration.
When you visit please take only pictures, leave only footprints...
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