Wild Things 2025: Author MeetnGreet

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.

Please note the list of authors and their books that will be available at the author meet'n'greet from 11 AM to 2 PM:

Jannifer Stevens Powelston

Featuring children’s nature titles, "Rachel and Sammy's Nature Notes" and "Rachel and Sammy's Prairie Partner". Adult nature mysteries "Summer Solstice" and "North Shore Explore"

Eiren Cafall

The Mourner’s Bestiary

All the Water in the World

Liam Heneghan

Through Pleated Light

Beasts at Bedtime

Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment

Cathy Jean Maloney

Olmsted's Riverside: Stewardship Meets Innovation in a Landmark Village

Chicago Gardens: The Early History

World's Fair Gardens: Shaping American Landscapes

Angella Moorehouse

Flower Bugs

Brian ‘Fox’ Ellis

Prairie Fire

A River of Stories

Tall Tree Tales

Bird Tales

Fox Tales

Singing Up the Sun

Frog Songs

Heather Holm

Wasps: A Guide for Eastern North America

Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide

Pollinators of Native Plants

Common Native Bees of the Eastern United States (quick guide)

Nathanael Pilla

Wildflowers of the Indiana Dunes National Park

Bill McKnight, Gerould Wilhelm

Indiana Academy of Science publications; last copies of Flora of the Chicago Region