SAVE THE DATE!!
The MWGL 2025 Annual Meeting will be held April 25th – 27th in Moline Illinois!! More information to follow…
SER MWGL Webinar Series: January Webinar Archived
The latest webinar in the SER MWGL Webinar Series is now archived. Speakers from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District discussed the Times Beach, NY Confined Disposal Facility Restoration Project, and how lessons learned in promoting native...Read More
Burning Issues Symposium
Check out the Burning Issues Symposium on Feb. 2 and 3 near Kalamazoo, MI. The symposium theme is “How Do We Integrate Competing Wildland Fire Objectives in Land Management and Restoration?” You can find out more information at http://lakestatesfiresci.net/BurningIssuesSymposium2016_12_07_15.html.Read More
Announcing the SER MWGL Restoration Webinar Series
We are pleased to announce that SER MWGL will begin hosting a new webinar series. Special thanks to Jessica Miller, our webinar coordinator, who has been busy planning several upcoming webinars with exciting topics and top-notch collaborators. You can find more...Read More
Register Now: SER MWGL and USACE Webinar January 26th
Join us for the next SER MWGL webinar on January 26, 2016 at 2pm CT/3pm ET. Presenters from the USACE will be discussing ecosystem restoration in Buffalo, NY. You can register online to reserve your space. Read More
State Roundup
Happy Friday everyone! Restoration practitioners in the Midwest-Great Lakes region have been busy planning, implementing, and celebrating restoration. Check out some links from around the region. Iowa: Iowa Rivers Revival is advocating a statewide river restoration framework to prioritize rivers...Read More
Biological Invasions Research Project
Alien Futures is a new research project collecting and examining issues that may affect the future global and local management of biological invasions. Horizon scanning is the systematic examination of future potential threats, opportunities and likely future developments. Some horizon scanning...Read More
The Promise of Restoration
by Steve Glass The science and practice of restoration ecology is a forward-looking, multifaceted discipline that has both deep roots in the past and a future-oriented perspective. Although a young discipline, restoration ecology has a remarkable history and a...Read More
2015 State Membership Event – Dayton Restoration Field Trip and Social
by Rocky Smiley (At-Large Representative, SER MWGL Chapter), Joe DiMisa (Secretary and Membership Chairperson, SER MWGL Chapter), Michael Enright (Ohio Representative, SER MWGL Chapter), and Mary Klunk (Five Rivers MetroParks). Twenty-two individuals from Ohio attended the Dayton Restoration Field Trip...Read More
Webinar – October 15th!
The Midwest-Great Lakes chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration, Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium, and Lake States Fire Science Consortium are teaming up to present the webinar: “Past Fire and Present-Day Mesophication: Implications for Oak Ecosystem...Read More
Photo Essay on Restoration of Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid in Wisconsin
by Steve Glass, The Restoration Ecology Lab Restoration Ecology in Action This photo sequence documents a case in which humans can be part of the solution to environmental problems. The photos illustrate how The Swamplovers Preserve near Cross Plains, Wisconsin...Read More
Save the Date for the 2016 NAPC
by Roger Anderson “Save the Date” 24th North American Prairie Conference From Cemetery Prairies to National Tallgrass Prairie July 17, 18, 19 & 20, 2016 Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois) The 24th NAPC will include more than 70 invited and...Read More
Update on 2015 SER Board of Directors Meeting in Manchester
by Mary Beth McCormack The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International Board of Directors met in Manchester, UK on August 21-22 prior to the SER 2015 World Conference. All outgoing and incoming Board members were in attendance. SER staff Levi...Read More
2015 SER Meeting in Manchester
by Todd Aschenbach SER MWGL members at the SER 2015 meeting in Manchester (l to r: Young Choi, Stuart Allison, Todd Aschenbach, John Shuey, Hua Chen, and Mary Beth McCormack [not pictured]). The Society for Ecological Restoration International’s 6th World Conference...Read More
Celebrating Biodiversity: Native Seeds in the Midwest
by Aaron Egan, Genesis Nursery Milkweed is most associated with monarch butterflies and is growing in popular use, however they are not the only plant you want to attract a diversity of pollinators. Diversity of ecosystem plays an integral part...Read More
Throwback Thursday – THE EFROYMSON RESTORATION AT KANKAKEE SANDS: A LANDSCAPE APPROACH FOR GRASSLAND AND SAVANNA CONSERVATION IN INDIANA
This post was initially published in September 2008. A landscape-scale restoration project is underway in northwestern Indiana to reestablish a semblance of the original habitat mosaic at an appropriate ecological scale. The Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy is attempting...Read More