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2019 North American Prairie Conference

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Chase Mathey

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Botany Technician
Louisiana

- Botany Technician for the Wildlife Diversity Program at LA Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries - Senior studying Ecological Restoration at Louisiana State University. Research interests include Plant Community and Landscape Ecology, Plant Conservation, Mycorrhizal Networks.

5:00pm CDT

Social Mixer and Conference Welcome Atrium II, Bayou Building at UHCLJaime Gonzalez

7:00am CDT

Light breakfast provided Atrium II

8:00am CDT

Welcome & Introductions by Conference Co-Chairs Bayou Theater

8:10am CDT

Welcome by UHCL President Ira K. Blake Ph.D. Bayou TheaterDr. Ira K. Blake

8:20am CDT

Keynote Presentation: Recommitment to a Prairie FutureLIMITED Bayou TheaterCarol Davit

9:15am CDT

Invited Speaker Presentation: John Jacob, PhD, Texas A&M University Bayou TheaterDr. John Jacob

10:00am CDT

The First Ten Years of Long-term Vegetation Monitoring at Broken Kettle Grasslands, Plymouth Co. IowaLIMITED Room 1218Brian Hazlett Healing Rivers and Prairies: Active Restoration Efforts After FloodsLIMITED Room 1313John Hart Asher

11:00am CDT

Upstairs-Downstairs: How Belowground Microbes Alter Plant Traits and Plant-Insect Interactions AbovegroundFILLING Room 1218Hannah Locke

11:30am CDT

In-field Prairie Plantings as a Means to Increase Native Plant Diversity in an Agricultural LandscapeFILLING Room 1418, The Forest RoomLydia English

12:00pm CDT

Lunch provided Atrium II, Bayou Building at UHCL

1:00pm CDT

The Effects of Bison Reintroduction on the Grassland Bird Community in Tallgrass prairieLIMITED Room 1218Heather Herakovich Texas Native Seeds Program: Development of Ecotypic Native Seeds Selections for TexasLIMITED Room 1510, The Garden RoomForrest Smith

1:30pm CDT

Rangeland Management for Pollinators in the Great PlainsLIMITED Room 1218Rae Powers A Look Back at 80+ Years of Restoration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum’s Curtis PrairieLIMITED Room 1418, The Forest RoomMichael Hansen

2:00pm CDT

Organic Horticultural Practices and How they Have Helped the Prairies at Memorial Park, HoustonLIMITED Room 1418, The Forest RoomDaniel Millikin

2:30pm CDT

Thirty Years of Restoration of Forb and Woody Species at Spicewood Ranch Room 1510, The Garden RoomDavid Mahler

3:00pm CDT

Art Contest 2nd floor Library breezewayDella Barbato Poster session 2nd floor Library breezeway

6:00pm CDT

Banquet Atrium II

7:30pm CDT

Featured Presentation: Forgotten Grasslands of the South: Origin, History, and FutureLIMITED Bayou TheaterDr. Reed Noss

8:00am CDT

Southwestern Prairie Field Trip (requires separate pre-registration)LIMITED Bus leaves from UH-Clear Lake

5:30pm CDT

Texas Barbecue Dinner with Featured Speaker Dr. Dwayne Estes of Southeast Grasslands Initiative (SGI) - (requires separate pre-registration)LIMITED Armand Bayou Nature Center

7:00am CDT

Light breakfast Atrium II

8:15am CDT

Co-chair Welcome & IntroductionLIMITED Bayou Theater

8:20am CDT

Featured Speaker: Optimism About Prairie Resilience and the Need to Engage the Public in Prairie ConservationLIMITED Bayou TheaterChris Helzer • The Nature Conservancy in Nebraska

9:00am CDT

The Ethnobotanical Use of Native Prairie PlantsLIMITED Bayou TheaterDr. Kelly Kindscher

9:30am CDT

Poster & Art Contest AwardsLIMITED Bayou Theater

10:00am CDT

Restoring Prairies Using Livestock Grazing for Wildlife, Range Health, and ProfitLIMITED Room 1510, The Garden RoomCasey Wade

10:30am CDT

Photographing Prairies for Maximum Impact Room 1218Sean Fizgerald Workshop: Prairie 101: Teaching City-slickers about Prairies through school lessons, pocket prairies, storytelling, and technologyLIMITED Room 1217Jaime Gonzalez • Della Barbato

11:00am CDT

Cooperative Greenhouse Addresses Houston's Scarcity of Native Prairie PlantsLIMITED Room 1218Cindy Ryoo Prairie Commons Room 1313George Cates

11:30am CDT

Strategic Conservation Prioritization for Katy Prairie: Using Modeling to Identify Focus Areas for ConservationLIMITED Room 1418, The Forest RoomJohathan Ogren

12:00pm CDT

Lunch provided Atrium II

1:00pm CDT

Determining Prairie Quality at Landscape ScaleLIMITED Room 1418, The Forest RoomAmie Treuer-Kuehn Engaging Generation Z in Prairie Conservation Room 1313Shivas Amin

1:30pm CDT

Louisiana Coastal Prairie Extirpation to Rediscovery: Building a Foundation for Large Scale Grassland Restoration in Southwest Louisiana though Preliminary Aerial Imagery Room 1418, The Forest RoomBrian Early • Steve Nevitt

2:00pm CDT

Describing Coastal Prairie Place Attachments for Improved Conservation Messaging Room 1218Matthew Pfeifer

2:30pm CDT

Identification of Selected Grass Species/Genera of the Cajun PrairieFILLING Room 1418, The Forest RoomCharles Allen

3:00pm CDT

Closing Remarks and Conference Wrap Up Atrium II