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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The grassroots movement to Save Bell Bowl Prairie expanded swiftly in large part due to the inspired minds who created visual art, street theater, music, poetry, and more, to bring awareness to the importance of saving this small remnant gravel prairie in Rockford, Illinois.
Scientific data is crucial in conserving biodiversity, and art is an essential partner in communicating the information in a way that touches hearts and catalyzes people to action. Art also serves as a means of expressing grief when conservation efforts do not succeed. As we near the 2nd anniversary of the destruction of all but 6.2 acres of Bell Bowl Prairie, join us to celebrate this beautiful place with a journey through the art it inspired.
