Name: Monitoring Plant-Pollinator Networks to Inform Restoration Strategies
Start: 2025-03-01T16:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T17:00:00-0600

The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**

NOTICE: Please be advised that photos and videos will be taken during Wild Things 2025. By attending, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your attendance on this event constitutes your agreement to the use of any resulting media by Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves for promotional, marketing, or any other purpose in perpetuity, without further approval or any compensation.

Saturday March 1, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm CST

Room 44

Understanding how our natural resource management affects plant-pollinator relationships is critical to assessing the effectiveness of restoration activities in conserving insect species diversity and healthy pollination of native plants. In this session, learn how the Lake County Forest Preserve District's Plant-Pollinator Monitoring Program aims to understand relationships between plants and pollinators to inform restoration strategies in the context of climate change. We will discuss the basics of plant-pollinator network ecology, how the framework was adapted to the District’s ecological monitoring program, preliminary findings, and future analysis directions that can inform restoration strategies such as seed mix design and reforestation plantings.

Presenters

Dan Sandacz

Restoration Ecologist I, Lake County Forest Preserve District

As a Restoration Ecologist I, I help make decisions about how to keep our Lake County Forest Preserves ecologically healthy and how to best conserve our plants and animals! I am especially interested in discussing optimal natural resource management strategies, ecological restoration... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm CST
Room 44

Plants & Pollinators, Technical

Session Session Block G: 4:15 - 5 PM

Wild Things 2025

Dan Sandacz

Attendees (88)

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