Dinner Lecture: The Virtues of Natural Land Management

The Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy and Friends of Wisdom Prairie join together to offer this dinner and panel discussion on the Virtues of Natural Land Management. The event will take place at Holy Wisdom Monastery.

Speakers

Jeffrey Sledge will discuss the issues related to the health benefits of Natural Lands for volunteers and visitors who experience being in an ecological community. He is the Research Scientist and Director of the Health and Built Environment Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Susan Carpenter will address the benefits of restoring a whole ecological community for sustaining biological diversity and restoring ecological services to an area. She is the Native Plant Gardener at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.

Randy Hunt will address the benefits of managing natural lands for the health and functioning of a watershed and its waters. He is the Chief Science Officer, Research Hydrologist for USGS Upper Midwest Water Science Center, in Middleton, Wisconsin.

Schedule

Cost

$40/person, includes dinner and program

Registration

Registration closed.