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2023 Annual Chapter Meeting: The Leopold Center & Vennebu Hill, Baraboo, Wisconsin<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Fourteenth Annual Meeting was co-hosted at The Leopold Center in Baraboo Wisconsin between April 14 and 16, 2023. The theme of the meeting was the love of restoration and history and adaptation. The meeting connected to some of the early roots of ecological restoration in the U.S. and the formation of SER itself in the late 1980s at the UW-Madison Arboretum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers from 12 states and Canada attended the conference, featuring keynote speaker and noted Leopold biographer, Curt Meine with his talk, The Courage of Our Connections: Restoration in Times of Rapid Social and Environmental Change. <\/em>The<\/em> opening plenary session, A Confluence of People, Passion, and Place: The Past, Present, and Future of Ecological Restoration in Southern Wisconsin <\/em>featured speakers from the Aldo Leopold Foundation, The Ho-Chunk Nation and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Abstracts for all presentations and posters can be found at the <\/em>2023 Meeting Program<\/em><\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Two workshops, four field trips, and three symposia featured a variety of topics including climate change adaptation, prairie restoration, deer management and invasive species management. Additionally, the Aldo Leopold Foundation organized a guided field tour at the second oldest prairie restoration site in the US., the Aldo Leopold \u201cshack\u201d and the Leopold Pines Conservation Area. Other field trips were led to local restoration sites including the Baraboo River dam removals and the expansive former Badger Ammo Plant which is being partially restored to prairie via partnership of the Ho-Chunk nation, the Wisconsin DNR, the USDA-NRCS and local partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS MEETING HOST AND SPONSORS:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

MEETING CO-HOST<\/strong>: The Aldo Leopold Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RUE ANEMONE SPONSOR<\/strong>: Environmental Consulting & Technology<\/strong>, University of Minnesota Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRAIRIE TRILLIUM SPONSORS<\/strong>: Davey Resource Group<\/strong>, GEI<\/strong>, KCI Technologies Inc<\/strong>, Ernst Conservation Seeds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BLOODROOT SPONSOR<\/strong>S: Ecological Design, Holden Forest & Gardens, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Land Restoration School, MycoBloom, Osage Inc., University of Northern Iowa Tallgrass Prairie Center<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2022 Annual Chapter Meeting:  Cleveland Ohio<\/strong><\/h4>\n

2021 Annual Chapter Meeting:  Virtual<\/strong><\/h4>\n

2019 Annual Chapter Meeting: Central College Pella, Iowa<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Eleventh Annual Chapter Meeting of the Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration was held at Central College in Pella, Iowa from April 12 to April 14, 2019<\/strong>. The meeting theme was Cultivating Innovative Restoration Connections in the Midwest. Our primary meeting goal was to explore how to foster the development of innovative restoration connections ecologically, culturally, and professionally to enable the field of ecological restoration to meet future challenges. Download the Meeting Program: 2019 Meeting Program<\/a> Download the abstract book: 2019 SERMWGL Abstract Book<\/a>. The three day meeting included:<\/p>\n