Name: Illinois' State Wildlife Action Plan
Start: 2025-03-01T11:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T12:00:00-0600

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 11:15am - 12:00pm CST

Room 45

This session will provide an overview of the development and implementation of Illinois’ State Wildlife Action Plan over the past 20 years and current efforts to review and update the SWAP. The Illinois Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan & Strategy version 1.0 and the 2015 Implementation Guide to the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan make up the currently approved State Wildlife Action Plan for the State of Illinois. The SWAP is organized around Campaigns and Conservation Opportunity Areas that allow opportunities for public and private partners to engage in conservation actions designed to maintain and enhance native species and natural communities throughout Illinois.

Presenters

Leon Hinz

State Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator, Illinois Department of Natural Resources

I am trained as an aquatic ecologist with graduate degrees from the University of Michigan. After working with the Illinois Natural History Survey for 12 years, I took a position with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources as the State Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator and am... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm CST
Room 45

Wildlife, Intro

Session Session Block B: 11:15 - 12 PM

Wild Things 2025

Leon Hinz

Attendees (122)

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