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This page will be tweaked a bit from time to time until the agenda is completely filled. Please keep an eye on it.

Schedule of Events


FRIDAY - April 22, 2016
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7:30 - 8:30: REGISTRATION 
8:30 - 8:45  Carrie McLaughlin (PowWow Coordinator and Moderator) - Welcome

8:45 - 9:15  Dr. Scott Longing (PowWow Steering Committee; Entomologist/TTU Plant and Soil Science Lab) – Welcome to TTU;  Pollinators on the Plains: New Research Focused on Pollinator Ecology and Conservation

9:15 - 10:15  Randy Johnson (Dallas Zoo Horticulture Manager; Randy Johnson Organics) – Native Plants:  Relevance and Application
10:15 - 10:45: BREAK
10:45 - 11:15:  Lauren Jansen Simpson: How I Came to Love the Syrphid Fly - From the Journal of a Citizen Scientist
                                       
11:15 - 12:00:  
Jim Ray (Wildlife Biologist/Scientist, Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, USDOE/NNSA Pantex Plant) - From Honeybees to Monarchs – A High and Rolling Plains Perspective AND An Update on the U. S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration Pollinator Initiative

12:00 - 12:30:  David Wolfe (Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund) - Monarch Butterfly Habitat Exchange
12:30 - 2:00: LUNCH
  2:00 - 2:45:  Karen Clary, Ph.D. (Program Manager, Plant Conservation, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center) - Project Milkweed – Collecting Important Milkweed Ecotypes for Monarchs
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2:45 - 4:15:  Sam Droege (Biologist, USGS Bee Monitoring Lab) - A Very Broad Overview of the Role of Native Bees in Landscapes: Patterns, Biology, Conservation, Management, Agriculture, and Surveys.
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5:00 - 8:00:  Native Bee ID Workshop I
(Instructors:  Scott Longing, Shalene Jha, Jack Neff, Sam Droege)

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5:00 - 6:30:  
Milkweed Propagation Workshop I
(Instructors: Karen Clary & LBJWC staff; Cynthia McKenney &TTU staff; Barbara Willy/Monarch Gateway)

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SATURDAY - April 23, 2016
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7:30 - 8:30 REGISTRATION

 8:30 - 8:45:  Carrie McLaughlin (PowWow Coordinator and Moderator) - Welcome

8:45 - 9:30: Bob Pyle, Ph.D. (Author/Lepidopterist/Founder of the Xerces Society) - Pollinators, Plants, and People on the Edge of What's Left

9:30 - 10:15: Tigga Kingston, Ph.D. (Bat biologist, TTU Kingston Lab)- Wind Farms, Wetlands, and White Nose: Challenges to Bat Conservation on the High Plains
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10:15 - 10:45: BREAK
 10:45 - 11:30:  Dr. Warren Conway (Wildlife Biologist, TTU Dept of Natural Resource Management; Tahoka Lake board member/trip leader) - Birds and Pollinators of the Southern Great Plains of Texas:  What are the Linkages? 

11:30 - 12:15: Dr. Shalene Jha (Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Jha Bee Lab) - Pollination Mutualisms: From Prairies to Cotton Farms

12:15 - 12:30: Robinson Sudan (Biologist, New Leaf/Pollinator Partnership) -  Bee Diversity of the Sky Islands
12:30 - 1:45: LUNCH
1:45 - 2:30:  Jo Ann Baumgartner (Executive Director, Wild Farm Alliance) - How Farms Can Benefit From and Support Biological Diversity


2:30 - 3:00: Sam Earnshaw (Executive Director, Hedgerows Unlimited; USDA-NRCS/TSP) - Planting Habitat on Farms: Designs, Techniques, Issues
3:00 - 3:15: BREAK

 3:15 - 4:00:
 Dr. Jack Neff (Executive Director, Central Texas Melittological Institute) - Floral Host Relationships of Texas Bees

4:00 - 4:45:  Dr. Jon Lundgren (Executive Director, Blue Dasher Farms and The Ecdysis Foundation) - The Role of Regenerative Agriculture in Solving the Bee Problem

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5:00 - 8:00: Native Bee ID Workshop II
(Instructors:  Scott Longing, Shalene Jha, Jack Neff, Sam Droege)

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5:00 - 6:30: Milkweed Propagation Workshop II

(Instructors: Karen Clary & LBJWC staff; Barbara Willy/Monarch Gateway)​




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