Plenaries

8 a.m., Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | Opening Plenary Session

Welcome
- Lisa Smith, Executive Director, Natural Areas Association
Long-Term Research to Support Prairie Conservation in a Changing World
- John Blair, Ph.D., Director, Konza Prairie Biological Station/Distinguished Professor, Division of Biology, Kansas State University
Long-Term Studies of Restored Prairie Offer Insights into Achieving Conservation Goals
- Sara Baer, Ph.D., State Biologist and Director, Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research; Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
Ethnobotany and the Engagement of People in Prairie Restoration and Conservation
- Kelly Kindscher, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research

12:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | Plenary Keynote

Sunny Fleming | Director - Environment, Conservation, & Natural Resource Solutions, Esri

8 a.m., Thursday, October 10, 2024 | Closing Plenary Panel

Moderator
- Rex Buchanan | Director Emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey
Panelists
- Jon P. Beckmann, Ph.D. | Wildlife Supervisor, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
- Tony Capizzo | Flint Hills Initiative Manager, The Nature Conservancy
- Andrew Davis | Cow-Calf Producer, Davis Family Ranch
- Michael Disney | State Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) Program in Kansas
- Jane Koger | Owner, Homestead Ranch
- David Kraft | Technical Coordinator, Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition
- Dean Krehbiel | Natural Resource Conservation Service
- Roger W. Wells | Wildlife and Land Management Biologist, Tallgrass Legacy Alliance

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