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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Indian Ridge Marsh (IRM) has been extremely degraded by hydrologic alteration and commercial and industrial dumping of dredged materials, slag, construction debris, and industrial waste material. Today, IRM North consists of shallow pools bounded by relatively steep shorelines, a result of the bulldozing of waste materials into the marsh. Working with the Chicago Park District, The Wetlands Initiative has restored over 3,500 linear feet of IRM North’s shoreline, reestablishing healthy gradual transition zones from upland prairie habitat down to the marsh. These new shoreline habitats are now able to support native wetland vegetation and wetland-dependent wildlife.
