Agenda

January 26, 2022 January 27, 2022 January 28, 2022

All times are in Eastern Standard Time.

January 26, 2022

12:00 pm - 12:15 pm

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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm

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Welcome / Opening Ceremony

Lisa Brush
The Stewardship Network
Frank Ettawageshik
Association on American Indian Affairs

12:30 pm - 1:20 pm

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Plenary Session - A Sense of Place, a Sense of Being

Frank Ettawageshik
Association on American Indian Affairs

1:20 pm - 1:30 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

1:30 pm - 2:20 pm

ROOM 1

How Do We Save the Planet by Acting Locally?

Stephen Packard
Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves

ROOM 2

Eco-Literature, Persistence, Resistance

Alison Swan
Western Michigan University
Keith Taylor
Poet & Writer

2:20 pm - 2:45 pm

Break/ Expo Hall Activities

2:45 pm - 3:35 pm

ROOM 1

What Drives Our Conservation and Restoration Future

Steve Apfelbaum
Resource Environmental Solutions

ROOM 2

Tools for Change

Janet Clark
Headwaters Economics
Patty Hernandez
Headwaters Economics

3:35 pm - 3:45 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

3:45 pm - 4:35 pm

ROOM 1

Poster Lightning Round followed by opportunity to talk with presenters

4:35 pm - 4:45 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

4:45 pm - 5:35 pm

ROOM 1

Thinking about the Mother Earth

Henry Lickers
International Joint Commission

ROOM 2

Inspiring Stewardship in our Agricultural Landscapes and Communities

Lisa Schulte Moore
Iowa State University
Charity Nebbe
Iowa Public Radio

5:35 pm - 6:00 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm

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Water Ceremony

Beatrice Jackson
Grandmother of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

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Evening Presentation - Stories from the Winter Sky

Mary Stewart Adams
Star Lore Historian, Author, Radio/Podcast Host

January 27, 2022

12:00 pm - 12:15 pm

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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm

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Welcome / Show Up

Lisa Brush
The Stewardship Network
Joe Davis
Joe Davis Poetry

12:30 pm - 1:20 pm

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Plenary Session - Rooted: A Conversation About Connecting to the Earth

David Haskell
Author of The Forest Unseen & The Songs of Trees
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Author of Rooted and Mozart’s Starling

1:20 pm - 1:30 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

1:30 pm - 2:20 pm

ROOM 1

Land Ethics Evolving: Conservation in a Time of Rapid Social and Environmental Change

Curt Meine
Center for Humans and Nature and Aldo Leopold Foundation

ROOM 2

Looking to the Past to Better Understand the Future: Discussing the Role of Indigenous Prophecies

Dan Longboat
Trent University

2:20 pm - 2:45 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

2:45 pm - 3:35 pm

ROOM 1

Resistance & Renewal - Our Fight to Save Mother Earth

Dallas Goldtooth
Indigenous Environmental Network

ROOM 2

Re-wilding

Phil Enquist
Illinois Institute of Technology

3:35 pm - 4:15 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

4:15 pm - 5:05 pm

ROOM 1

Connecting Parks and Public Lands to Communities

Armando Quintero
California Department of Parks and Recreation

ROOM 2

Equity in Restoration and Stewardship

Laura Rubin
Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition

5:05 pm - 6:00 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Networking Activity

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

ROOM 1

Story Session - The People Who Changed Me: Past, Present, Future

Patricia Wheeler
Storyteller

January 28, 2022

12:00 pm - 12:15 pm

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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm

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Welcome

Lisa Brush
The Stewardship Network

12:30 pm - 1:20 pm

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Plenary Session - Going From Becoming to Being, How Many Steps?

Carolyn Finney
Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College
John Francis
Planetwalk

1:20 pm - 1:30 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

1:30 pm - 2:20 pm

ROOM 1

Biomimicry Makes Life Easier

Mark Shepard
Restoration Agriculture Development

ROOM 2

Hope as a Catalyst for Change

Sharon Farrell
Golden Gate National Park Conservancy

2:20 pm - 2:45 pm

Break / Expo Hall Activities

2:45 pm - 3:35 pm

ROOM 1

Listening to the Forest: A Journey Between Two Worlds

Jeff Grignon
Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin

ROOM 2

Nature-Based Climate Solutions and Local Conservation Work

Rosina Bierbaum
University of Michigan
Missy Stults
City of Ann Arbor
Liesl Eichler Clark
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy