The Art & Science of Grasslands Saturday, May 30, 2015
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The Art & Science of Grasslands Saturday, May 30, 2015
Co-presented by: The Art & Science of Grasslands Saturday, May 30, 2015 Welcome – Moderator, Michelle Sullivan 9:00-9:10 Ucross Foundation Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative The Art Frank Goodyear 9:10-9:25 Michael Berman 9:30-9:45 Willy Sutton 9:50-10:05 Laura Bell 10:10-10:25 The Science The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming We are grateful to all of the symposium presenters for sharing their experience and expertise, and to the following for their leadership, inspiration and commitment to land stewardship: Jackie Canterbury 10:30-10:45 Brian Mealor 10:50-11:05 Charlie Bettigole with Catherine Kuhn 11:10-11:25 Rick Pallister and Trey Davis 11:30-11:45 John Heyneman 11:50-12:05 Arthur Middleton 12:10-12:25 Apache Foundation SCiENCE KiDS program 9:00-12:30 Bighorn Audubon Society Sign up for Afternoon Workshops Draper Natural History Museum of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch 1:30 – 4:00 p.m. Art & Science workshops The Art & Science of Grasslands Raymond Plank Plank Stewardship Initiative Michael Berman and Willy Sutton Location: in the field/Ucross Ranch Photography Workshop Ucross Foundation Board of Trustees University of Wyoming Charlie Bettigole and Catherine Kuhn Location: in the field/Ucross Ranch Mapping & Hydrology Workshop Jackie Canterbury and Brian Mealor Location: in the field/Ucross Ranch Bird and Plant Walk Rick Pallister and Trey Davis Closing reception at the Ucross Art Gallery Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Science Kids Naturalist Hike for Kids 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Space is limited – Please RSVP no later than May 28, 2015 at (307) 737-2291 or [email protected] This event is free of charge and includes lunch. Saturday, May 30, 2015 Ucross Foundation 30 Big Red Lane Ucross, Wyoming THE ART & SCIENCE OF GRASSLANDS May 30, 2015 SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOPS FRANK H. GOODYEAR, JR. Frank Goodyear is a distinguished writer and curator who has served as Director of The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, and as Director and President of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His board service includes The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Wyoming Community Foundation, Park County Affiliate, the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum Advisory Committee, and many others. MICHAEL P. BERMAN An award-winning photographer, Michael Berman received a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph the grasslands of the Chihuahuan desert. His art is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum and the Museum of New Mexico, among many others. He resides in southwest New Mexico’s Mimbres Valley. His most recent book is The Gila (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2012), devoted to the borderlands of the U.S. and New Mexico. WILLIAM S. SUTTON William S. Sutton’s awards include a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. His photographs have been exhibited widely and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, the Colorado Historical Society, and many others. His monograph, At Home in the West: Photographs of Public Land, was published in 2012. Sutton is a professor at Regis College and lives in the mountains west of Denver. LAURA MARSH BELL Laura Bell’s writing reflects the landscape that has shaped her—the high desert ranges of northwest Wyoming—and themes of loss and transformation. In her 35 years in Wyoming, she has worked as a sheepherder, cowboy, forest ranger, massage therapist, horse packer, bookstore and gallery manager, and conservationist. She has written a memoir Claiming Ground (Knopf, 2010) and is a recipient of fellowships from the Wyoming Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently is working in fiction and hopes someday to be a poet. JACKIE CANTERBURY Dr. Jackie Canterbury earned bachelor’s degrees at the University of Washington and The Evergreen College, and masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She acquired a passion for birds in college and has worked as a wildlife biologist on the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. Jackie later developed a conservation strategy for non-game birds for the state of Nebraska. Dr. Canterbury has taught at Sheridan College since 2009. She is President of the Bighorn Audubon Society. BRIAN MEALOR Brian Mealor is an Assistant Professor and Director of the University of Wyoming’s Sheridan Research and Extension Center. His work focuses on interactions between native and invasive plants, strategic weed management, and restoring invasive plant-impacted landscapes. He was named Outstanding Young Range Professional by the Society for Range Management in 2013 and Outstanding Weed Scientist – Early Career by the Western Society of Weed Science in 2015. MICHELLE SULLIVAN Michelle Sullivan, an educational consultant and new Trustee of the University of Wyoming, is Principal, Sullivan & Associates and Founder, Center for Inspired Learning Environments. Her education includes a B.A. Fine Arts, Colorado College 1986; a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; a Kellogg National Fellowship; and an M.A., Education, Harvard University. Her many years of nonprofit service include the Aspen Institute, the Daniels Fund, the Wyoming State Board of Education, Ucross Foundation, the Buffalo Bill Center for the West, Wyoming State Parks & Cultural Resources Commission, and others. CHARLIE BETTIGOLE A native of Connecticut, Charlie Bettigole is a wildlife biologist and GIS analyst by trade. He co-directs the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative (UHPSI) for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, dividing his time between Ucross and New Haven. With a fantastic team of master's and doctoral students, UHPSI develops quantitative, science-based research to support rangeland management in Wyoming and beyond. CATHERINE KUHN Catherine Kuhn is a recent graduate of Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her research in Wyoming, as part of the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative, focused on the bio-geochemistry of the Clear Creek watershed. RICK PALLISTER Rick Pallister lives in Buffalo and is The Nature Conservancy’s Wyoming Northeast Program Director. TREY DAVIS Trey Davis is The Nature Conservancy’s Wyoming Land Management Supervisor. JOHN HEYNEMAN John Heyneman grew up on a registered cattle ranch in southern Montana. He served as project manager for Sheridan’s North Main Association, a citizen’s organization focused on economic revitalization, and from 2010 to 2013 he worked for the Sonoran Institute’s Wyoming Program. Prior to that, he was General Manager of North Rim Ranch LLC, a large cattle ranch and restoration project in northern Arizona and southern Utah. He also worked on the Padlock Ranch. He currently is the Director of the Plank Stewardship Initiative and serves on the boards of High Country News, First Interstate BancSystem, and Padlock Ranch. ARTHUR MIDDLETON Arthur Middleton, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has a Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming (Ecology) and an M.E.M. from Yale University (Biodiversity and ecosystems). He is currently studying the effects of wolves, bears, and drought on the elk of the Absaroka Range, conducting research on the nine major migratory elk populations of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). This work will culminate in a traveling museum exhibit, developed in partnership with the Draper Museum of Natural History and the Whitney Western Art Museum at Wyoming's Buffalo Bill Center of the West, to open in 2016. AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP – Michael and Willy will gather participants in the art gallery to introduce some images and ideas, and then everyone will head out into the field for a walk, to make photographs and talk about photographing the land. NATURALIST HIKE FOR KIDS – Rick and Trey will lead a children’s naturalist hike on the Ucross ranch with topics relating to grassland conservation and ecology. MAPPING AND HYDROLOGY WORKSHOP - Charlie and Catherine will take participants down to Clear Creek, where they will discuss their research, demonstrate techniques for water-quality sampling, and look at technologies for mapping in the field. Bring along footwear that you don't mind getting wet and a smart-phone for mapping if you have one! A kid friendly activity. BIRD AND PLANT WALK – Jackie and Brian will lead a group into the field focusing on teaching individuals the art of bird identification by sight and by sound. Each participant will be encouraged to carry a field notebook, which will be provided, so they can learn how to keep a field journal. Jackie will also discuss the current trends in iPhone apps for birding and explain the importance of eBird, the international database of bird information that is used by scientists. 4:00 p.m. Closing reception for all participants at the Ucross Art Gallery.