BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5e9fcf5f18d78a46bbace38c7fecae36 CATEGORIES:Membershp Meetings CREATED:20210101T212858 SUMMARY:February Virtual Membership Meeting: The North American Prairies DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:
Topic: The North American Prairies: An Introduction to a Little Known Ec
osystem
Presenter: Beth Madden
Location: Online Video Conf erence Via Zoom
Wildlife biologist Beth Madden will lead us in an exploration of the history, ecology, plants, and animals of one o f North America’s most threatened ecosystems. What exactly is native prairi e? How does it operate as an ecosystem, and what are our challenges in main taining it? Learn about the natural disturbance regimes that keep prairies functioning and healthy. Grassland birds will be a special focus, as we exa mine how different groups of birds adapted to life on the prairies.
B eth Madden is a wildlife biologist with more than 30 years experience, most ly as a federal biologist in Montana and North Dakota with the U.S. Fish an d Wildlife Service. She also worked for the US Forest Service, for Montana State University as a research associate studying golden eagles, and more r ecently as a biological consultant helping energy companies monitor birds a nd bats at wind farms. She has a BA in Zoology from the University of Monta na, and an MS in Biology from Montana State University. Raised in upstate N ew York, Beth did not come to appreciate the prairies until her graduate re search took her to North Dakota to study the importance of fire in maintain ing habitat for prairie birds. Her subsequent work on national wildlife ref uges focused on improving wildlife habitat by restoring natural disturbance regimes to the prairies.
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