Sperry Galligar Audubon: Conservation Is Not For Sissies
Event information
April 25, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Presented By: Sperry-Galligar Audubon Chapter
Location: 102 Yates Hall, Pittsburg State University
Address: 1702 S. Joplin St
Event details
Max and Eweleen Good will present a program at the Sperry-Galligar Audubon meeting that covers both successes and failures experienced on their 40-acre property in Southeast Kansas. For more than 30 years they have worked to establish and improve varied, diverse wildlife habitats.
In 1992 they added a 6-acre wetland in partnership with and help from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It was designated as Kansas Wetland #1 in the USDA Wetland Reserve Program. That wetland was the major catalyst for their projects including the restoration of 10 acres of tall grass prairie on land that had failed as a “wheat field” but is now home to more than 200 native species. A slide show of photos taken during the process will be shown. Open and free to the public.
About Sperry-Galligar Audubon
The Sperry-Galligar Audubon chapter has been based at Pitt State since 1999, having been led by professors of biology and named for a pair of married biology professors, Theodore Sperry and Gladys Galligar, who were instrumental in conservation on a national scale.
This year’s president is Associate Professor of Biology Andy George.
Additional details: sperry-galligar.com