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January 26, 2022
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
MAIN STAGE
Welcome / Opening Ceremony
- Lisa Brush
The Stewardship Network - Frank Ettawageshik
Association on American Indian Affairs
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
MAIN STAGE
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
MAIN STAGE
Water Ceremony
- Beatrice Jackson
Grandmother of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
MAIN STAGE
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
MAIN STAGE
Welcome / Show Up
- Lisa Brush
The Stewardship Network - Joe Davis
Joe Davis Poetry
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
MAIN STAGE
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
MAIN STAGE
Welcome
- Lisa Brush
The Stewardship Network
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
MAIN STAGE
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 as Regenerative Technology
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
3:35 pm - 3:45 pm
Break / Expo Hall Activities
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
ROOM 1
Closing
- Lisa Brush
The Stewardship Network - John Francis
Planetwalk