Name: Closing Plenary/Social Hour/Poster Session
Start: 2025-03-01T17:00:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T18:00:00-0600

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 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST

Rooms 21-23 & 32-34

Botanist and science educator Joey Santore, host of the YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, is the closing plenary speaker. He will be joined by Alice Bercholli, a volunteer with the Peregrines.

Presenters

Joey Santore

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

Originally from the Chicago Area, Joey Santore is a botanist, illustrator, author, educator, artist and lawn-killer who now travels the world studying plants through the lense of evolution and ecology. He documents the species and ecosystems he sees on the YouTube channel Crime Pays... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST
Rooms 21-23 & 32-34

Wild Things 2025

Joey Santore

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