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2019 North American Prairie Conference

SUSAN M CONATY

The Nature Conservancy
Assistant Land Steward
West Columbia Texas

The Nash Prairie and how it became part of The Nature Conservancy

3:00pm CDT

Conference Registration Atrium I

5:00pm CDT

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

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

9:45am CDT

Announcements & BreakLIMITED Bayou Theater

10:00am CDT

An Assessment of Methods and Species for Restoring Native Coastal PrairieLIMITED Room 1510, The Garden RoomAaron Tjelmeland

10:30am CDT

Flora and Ecology of Powderhorn Ranch, A Prairie Landscape Endemic to the Coastal Bend of TexasLIMITED Room 1218Jason Singhurst

11:00am CDT

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

11:30am CDT

Comparative Morphology of Competing Clonal Non-native Grass with Co-occurring Native Clonal GrassLIMITED Room 1218Lan Xu

1:00pm CDT

Climate Change and the Fate of Southeast Texas Plant CommunitiesFILLING Room 1313Andy Sipocz

1:30pm CDT

Grassland Conservation and Carbon MarketsLIMITED Room 1313Kirsten Kleimann • Cindy Chiang • Margaret Williams

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

If We Build it, Will They Come? Arthropod Communities as Indicators of Restoration in an Urban Prairie NetworkFILLING Room 1418, The Forest RoomAmanda Finke

4:00pm CDT

BreakLIMITED Atrium II

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

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

9:45am CDT

BreakLIMITED Atrium II

10:30am CDT

Photographing Prairies for Maximum Impact Room 1218Sean Fizgerald

11:30am CDT

The Cultivation of Conservation Awareness and Action: The Galveston Bay Report Card Room 1218Galveston Bay Foundation • T'Noya Thompson

12:00pm CDT

Lunch provided Atrium II

1:30pm CDT

Harvesting the Prairie Fringe: Native American Bison Hunting on West Houston Prairies Room 1218Dan Worrall

2:00pm CDT

Panel: Putting fire on the GroundLIMITED Room 1510, The Garden RoomLori Bammerlin • Stephen Deiss • Sandra Rideout-Hanzak • Mort Kothmann

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