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.
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From the giddy 80’s to the gloomy 00’s and on to the hopeful 20’s, I volunteered and worked from the Central Illinois Sands and Revis Hill Prairie to Chiwaukee Prairie & the Illinois Dunes to the Braidwood Sands and Dolomite Valleys. And now on to the 4-Rivers Conservation Opportunity Area (COA) which ranges from Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie through Des Plaines Conservation Area to Goose Lake Prairie through the Braidwood Sands and upriver to the Kankakee River State Park with around 30,000 of acres of protected land holding remnant prairie, savanna, wetland, creek, cliff and river on black, dolomite, sand and clay soils of Illinois’ Grand Prairie. A place so rich in natural diversity, the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan recommends focusing conservation dollars and efforts there.
