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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How has one of the oldest campus prairie restorations impacted today’s restorations in the Chicagoland Area and beyond and how is it helping shape tomorrow's restoration leaders? Since 1974 approximately 45 acres of urban woods, wetland, and prairie habitat has been restored at the College of DuPage and contains over 1000 species, including prairie specialists and several listed species. Generations of researchers, future ecologists and students, from biologists to artists, use the Russell R. Kirt Prairie to incorporate the natural world into their lives and explore the changing face of restoration and maintenance of natural areas.
