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The MWGL 2025 Annual Meeting will be held April 25th – 27th in Moline Illinois!! More information to follow…
Restoration and Rememberance
One of the most common pieces of advice I have heard about writing is to write about something you know about. I guess it was meant to be that I did a little early morning birding today in Thatcher Woods...Read More
Throwback Thursday: 100 Sites for 100 Years: A Chicago Wildernewss Land Management Research Program
This post was originally posted in our January 2009 newsletter. by Lauren Umek and Liam Heneghan, Institute for Nature and Culture, DePaul University Despite the recognized centrality of ecological knowledge to restoration practice, there is sometimes an unproductive disconnect between the...Read More
Storify about SER MWGL Annual Meeting
We’ve been playing around with Storify and created a really cool summary of all kinds of great materials from our Annual Meeting. Check out some never seen before photos and videos: //storify.com/SERMWGL/getting-started/embed[<a href=”//storify.com/SERMWGL/getting-started” target=”_blank”>View the story “SER MWGL 2016 Wrap-Up”...Read More
24th North American Prairie Conference
There’s no better time to visit the Prairie State than July, right? While booking your adventures to Midwestern county fairs and bbq’s perhaps you can check out the 24th North American Prairie Conference at Illinois State University, running from July...Read More
Soil Microbes in Ecological Restoration
By restoration scientists Elizabeth Bach, Jonathan Bauer, and Liz Koziol Increasingly, ecological restoration goals include belowground ecosystem services including reducing soil erosion, retaining soil nutrients, restoring plant-soil feedbacks, and potentially storing carbon to reduce CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. Soil...Read More
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bat Meeting
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service will be holding a one-day informational meeting on federally-listed bats on May 3, 2016 in Frankfort, KY. The draft agenda includes: Bat Population Status and Status assessment Update Updates to Species Ranges Section...Read More
SER MWGL 8th Annual Meeting
by Jen Lyndall Bloomington, Indiana–The SER Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter (SER MWGL) held their 8th annual meeting at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana from April 1 to April 3, 2016. Over 200 attendees gathered to discuss a number of topics related...Read More
SER MWGL 2016 Keynote and Plenary Sessions Archived!
We had a fantastic annual meeting with some inspiring speakers! Check out the archived opening plenary session featuring Lars Brudvig, Ellen Jacquart, John Shuey, and Steve Glass: And the inspiring keynote speech by Doug Ladd: Read More
Student Awards!
The Society for Ecological Restoration, Midwest Great Lakes Chapter is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s student restoration research and practice awards. This was our second student research award and our first student practice award. We received many...Read More
Need Continuing Education Credits?
Starting this year, the SER MWGL annual meeting (https://chapter.ser.org/midwestgreatlakes/current-meeting/) will be eligible for continuing education credits from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), and Society of American Foresters (SAF). We will also provide a...Read More
Register now for the SER MWGL annual meeting!
Reminder: today is the last day of early bird registration for the 2016 SER MWGL annual meeting. https://chapter.ser.org/midwestgreatlakes/current-meeting/Read More
2016 Meeting Registration is Open!
The Eighth Annual Chapter Meeting of the Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration will be held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana from April 1 to April 3, 2016. This year’s meeting theme is Overcoming Challenges to...Read More
Advice on Goldenrod Control?
I manage a 3-acre prairie planting on the Butler University campus in Indianapolis (http://legacy.butler.edu/herbarium/prairies/). The site was planted from seed of 50 Indiana native prairie species in 1987. We burn every few years and also keep woody plants under control...Read More
Announcing: 2016 SER MWGL Student Grants
SER MWGL is pleased to welcome proposals for the 2016 Student Practice Grant and the 2016 Student Research Grant. Applications are due by March 1, 2016. Submission details are provided below. Student Practice Grant: The purpose of the Student Restoration...Read More
Announcing: 2016 SER MWGL Student Grants
SER MWGL is pleased to welcome proposals for the 2016 Student Practice Grant and the 2016 Student Research Grant. Applications are due by March 1, 2016. Submission details are provided below. Student Practice Grant: The purpose of the Student Restoration...Read More