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| River City Chapter Grand Rapids, MI |
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Special Event
This special program is presented by River City Wild Ones in
partnership with the Grand Rapids Audubon Club, Calvin College-
Bunker Interpretive Center, the Land Conservancy of West
Michigan, and the West Michigan Cluster of the Stewardship
Network.
Mark your calendars for Monday evening, March 29th, to hear this
informative lecture by this knowledgeable guest to our area. The
location will be the historic Ladies Literary Club in downtown
Grand Rapids. Attendance is expected to be high and it is on a
first-come/first-seated basis. Hopefully you have already read his
inspiring book and if so, bring your copy along as the author will
be signing books after the lecture. NOTE that books will also be
on sale during the event.
Dr. Douglas Tallamy's
Bringing Nature Home to WMI
Date: Mar 29, 2010 (Mon)
Time: 6:30 Social/7:30 p.m. Program
Location: Ladies Literary Club, 61 Sheldon Blvd SE, Grand
Rapids 49503 (map - one and a half blocks south of Fulton St.
Parking is available in front of the LLC on Sheldon Blvd. and in
the Spectrum Heath parking lot across Sheldon. Note that entrance
to the Spectrum lot is off La Grave Ave.)
Speaker: Dr. Douglas Tallamy (University of Delaware Professor)
Topic: Bringing Nature Home
With as many as 33,000 species imperiled in the U.S., it is clear
that we must change our approach to gardening and landscaping if
we hope to share the spaces in which we live and work with other
living things. The first thing we must do is put more plants into
our denuded landscapes, because plants provide the food that
drives all food webs. Native plants will play a key role in the
restoration of our landscapes because only natives provide the
coevolved relationships required by most animals. By supporting a
diversity of insect herbivores, native plants provide food for a
large and healthy community of natural enemies that keep
herbivores in balance and our gardens aesthetically pleasing.
Gardening in this crowded world carries both moral and ecological
responsibilities that we can no longer ignore.
Doug Tallamy is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Entomology and Wildlife Ecology and director of the Center for
Managed Ecosystems at the University of Delaware in Newark,
Delaware, where he has authored 69 research articles and has
taught Insect Taxonomy, Behavioral Ecology, and other courses
for 28 years. Chief among his research goals is to better
understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how
such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.
His book "Bringing Nature Home; How Native Plants Sustain
Wildlife in Our Gardens" was published by Timber Press in 2007
and was awarded the 2008 silver medal by the Garden Writer’s
Association.
More information on Dr. Tallamy can be found on his webpage at
the University of Delaware and on his book at bringingnaturehome.
net.
For an event flier to take with you to the event/pass out to your
peers, compliments of the Grand Rapids Audubon Club, see below:
Tallamy's Bringing Nature Home to WMI Event Flier
This special program is presented by River City Wild Ones in
partnership with the Grand Rapids Audubon Club, Calvin College-
Bunker Interpretive Center, the Land Conservancy of West
Michigan, and the West Michigan Cluster of the Stewardship
Network.
Mark your calendars for Monday evening, March 29th, to hear this
informative lecture by this knowledgeable guest to our area. The
location will be the historic Ladies Literary Club in downtown
Grand Rapids. Attendance is expected to be high and it is on a
first-come/first-seated basis. Hopefully you have already read his
inspiring book and if so, bring your copy along as the author will
be signing books after the lecture. NOTE that books will also be
on sale during the event.
Dr. Douglas Tallamy's
Bringing Nature Home to WMI
Date: Mar 29, 2010 (Mon)
Time: 6:30 Social/7:30 p.m. Program
Location: Ladies Literary Club, 61 Sheldon Blvd SE, Grand
Rapids 49503 (map - one and a half blocks south of Fulton St.
Parking is available in front of the LLC on Sheldon Blvd. and in
the Spectrum Heath parking lot across Sheldon. Note that entrance
to the Spectrum lot is off La Grave Ave.)
Speaker: Dr. Douglas Tallamy (University of Delaware Professor)
Topic: Bringing Nature Home
With as many as 33,000 species imperiled in the U.S., it is clear
that we must change our approach to gardening and landscaping if
we hope to share the spaces in which we live and work with other
living things. The first thing we must do is put more plants into
our denuded landscapes, because plants provide the food that
drives all food webs. Native plants will play a key role in the
restoration of our landscapes because only natives provide the
coevolved relationships required by most animals. By supporting a
diversity of insect herbivores, native plants provide food for a
large and healthy community of natural enemies that keep
herbivores in balance and our gardens aesthetically pleasing.
Gardening in this crowded world carries both moral and ecological
responsibilities that we can no longer ignore.
Doug Tallamy is Professor and Chair of the Department of
Entomology and Wildlife Ecology and director of the Center for
Managed Ecosystems at the University of Delaware in Newark,
Delaware, where he has authored 69 research articles and has
taught Insect Taxonomy, Behavioral Ecology, and other courses
for 28 years. Chief among his research goals is to better
understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how
such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.
His book "Bringing Nature Home; How Native Plants Sustain
Wildlife in Our Gardens" was published by Timber Press in 2007
and was awarded the 2008 silver medal by the Garden Writer’s
Association.
More information on Dr. Tallamy can be found on his webpage at
the University of Delaware and on his book at bringingnaturehome.
net.
For an event flier to take with you to the event/pass out to your
peers, compliments of the Grand Rapids Audubon Club, see below:
Tallamy's Bringing Nature Home to WMI Event Flier
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