Name: Origin Stories: How We Get Hooked on Stewardship
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 51

Stewardship storytime! How did you get started as a volunteer? What sustains your involvement? Was there an experience that changed your life? Something you learned that you didn't expect? Maybe an "Oh, how wrong I was!" memory?

This is sociology, a start, with stories. The goal is to glean ways to build and support our volunteer community.

Presenters

Sharon Rosenzweig

Volunteer Steward

The kickoff at Illinois Beach in September 2023 was my first foray into land stewardship. Armed with a bow saw and a lopper, I followed a group of 10 into a thicket of buckthorn. They lit a fire and told us to start cutting. By break time we had cleared a view to a prairie dune another... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 11:15am - 12:00pm CST
Room 51

Community Engagement, Intro

Session Session Block B: 11:15 - 12 PM

Attendees (43)

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Wild Things 2025

Sharon Rosenzweig

Attendees (43)

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