Name: Opening Plenary: Ode to Joy - A life with dragonflies
Start: 2025-03-01T09:00:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T10:00:00-0600

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 9:00am - 10:00am CST

Rooms 21-25 & 30-34

Local author, biologist, and researcher Marla Garrison is the keynote speaker. Garrison is the Director of Liebman Institute for Science Innovation on the campus of McHenry County College and renowned expert on dragonflies and damselflies. She will be joined by Pilcher Park volunteer leader Carol Goolsby.

Presenters

Marla Garrison

McHenry County College

Marla Garrison is Director of the Liebman Institute for Science Innovation at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois. For 29 years she taught biology at the community college level. Over the past 20 years she has studied the aquatic insect order Odonata (dragonflies and... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am CST
Rooms 21-25 & 30-34

Wild Things 2025

Marla Garrison

Attendees (1000)

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