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The MWGL 2025 Annual Meeting will be held April 25th – 27th in Moline Illinois!! More information to follow…
Ball State University to host a Wetland Restoration Workshop–Oct 1st & 2nd, 2022
Ball State University’s Field Station and Environmental Education Center is hosting this hands-on workshop to demonstrate practical, low- cost techniques to create or restore natural and native wetland habitats. Participants learn to select suitable locations, test soil texture, choose appropriate...Read More
American Society of Reclamation Sciences–39th Annual Meeting June 12-16, 2022
SER Midwest Great Lakes Chapter to Co-host The 2022 meeting of the American Society of Reclamation Sciences will be held June 12-16th, 2022 at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (“DECC”) on the shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, MN. We...Read More
Student Researchers Recognized at 2021 SER MWGL Annual Chapter Meeting
Several student members of the SER MWGL chapter were presented with awards on April 29th at this year’s virtual conference business meeting/awards ceremony. Among those receiving awards was Alexa Wagner who won the the 2021 SER MWGL Student Restoration...Read More
2021 Student Grant Program Request for Proposals Now Open
The Society for Ecological Restoration Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter (SER MWGL) 2021 annual student grant program is now requesting proposals. The application deadline is April 12, 2021. The award program is open to all undergraduate and graduate students who are members...Read More
New Initiative: Increasing Native American Participation in SER MWGL Activities
SER Midwest Great Lakes Receives SER Partnership Fund Grant The SER Midwest-Great Lakes chapter in November 2020 received a Society for Ecological Restoration Partnership grant for activities focused on establishing greater connections to Midwestern-Great Lakes Native American tribes (Ojibwe,...Read More
Illinois Restoration Ecologists Measured 34 Years of Plant Community Change in a Degraded Oak Woodland
SER MWGL member Karen Glennemeier, and colleagues Stephen Packard, and Greg Spyreas recently published in PLOS ONE results of their 34-year study documenting plant community change in Vestal Grove in the Somme Prairie Grove forest preserve in Cook County, Illinois....Read More
Woody Invasives of the Great Lakes Collaborative Summit–Nov 5-6, 2020
This two day on-line symposium is being hosted as part of the Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference’s 2020 online event. If you are interested in invasive species topics broadly, we highly encourage you to check out www.umisc.net and register for...Read More
New Resource for Prairie Seed and Seedling Identification
by Ashton Merbach The restoration of any tallgrass prairie begins with the seed itself. When beginning a restoration project, it is important to have the proper tools to identify which seed you are planting and are able to identify its...Read More
Project Wingspan Takes Flight Across the Midwest and Great Lakes Region
As you may know, the iconic monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and its spectacular migration are in jeopardy. Their North American numbers have suffered a steep decline of approximately 90% over the past two decades, and in 2014 the U.S. Fish...Read More
The Virtual Field Trip: A Mitigation Strategy for the COVID-19 Pandemic
July 12–by Lara Roketentz, at-large member of SER MWGL Board of Directors The COVID-19 pandemic is causing massive disruptions in higher education. Faculty across disciplines are struggling to quickly transition to virtual classrooms. Nowhere has this been more difficult than...Read More
2020 Student Research and Implementation Grant Award Winners Announced
The winner of the 2020 Student Restoration Implementation Grant is the SER Student Chapter at The Ohio State University. Their project was titled, Replanting the urban riparian forest along the Olentangy River in Columbus, Ohio. The winner of the 2020...Read More
SER MWGL 2019-20 Annual Report
The 2020 Annual Chapter Meeting scheduled for March 27-29 in Cleveland, Ohio was postponed due to the coronaviuus (Covid-19) pandemic. The Annual Meeting Committee is considering possible dates for re-scheduling the meeting. More information coming soon. In lieu of the...Read More
$1M awarded to wetlands restoration project on Chicago’s Southeast Side
Several environmental organizations funded a restoration project for the Powderhorn Lake Forest Preserve. From the Chicago Sun-Times–March 17, 2020 “Over 100 acres of wetlands in southeast Chicago will be restored in a three-year, $1 million project, according to the environmental...Read More
Call for Meeting Host Proposals for the 2021 SER Midwest-Great Lakes Annual Chapter Meeting
The Society for Ecological Restoration’s Midwest Great-Lakes Chapter (SER MWGL) invites all interested parties to submit a meeting host proposal for the 2021 Annual Chapter Meeting. The deadline for submitting a meeting host proposal is March 6, 2020 and...Read More
Student Grant Awards Deadline Fast Approaching
Application Deadline: February 21, 2020 The Student Grant Program offers 2 awards: a Research Grant supports student involvement in research in ecological restoration; an Implementation Grant supports student involvement in the implementation or management of an ecological restoration project. The...Read More