NACP Program

The WSU River Explorer cabin cruiser has been reserved throughout the 21^stNAPC for guided tours of the Mississippi River. Funds for these tours have been donated by Xcel Energy to foster increased environmental awareness for conference attendees and their guests.

Tours will be approximately two hours in duration and reservations are required to assure a place on the cruiser. Individuals with reservations will be allowed first access to board. Others in waiting will then be allowed access to board, up to the seating capacity of the boat.

Alcoholic beverages are not allowed on the River Explorer. Food and non-alcoholic beverages are allowed. On Wednesday August 6th, a box lunch is provided only for NAPC-registered individuals and their Field Trip guests who present pre-paid tickets.

Reservations can be made using the Reservation Form at THIS LINK. The Reservation Form allows reservations to be made or changed only by individuals registered for the 21^st NAPC. Registered participants of the NAPC may reserve seats for themselves and their family/guests at no charge. The Reservation Form requires your NAPC Registration Number and NAPC Registration Time. (If you have lost track of your Registration Number and/or Registration Time, contact L.A. Reuter for assistance.)

Evening Ad Hoc Meetings / Workshops
Time	Venue	Topic	Organizer
Tuesday Aug 5, 2008 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm	Pasteur Hall 105	The Next North American Prairie Conference: Timing & Host	Dr. Bruno Borsari
Tuesday Aug 5, 2008 7:45 pm - 8:45 pm	Pasteur Hall 105	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mtg	Pam Bailey

Monday August 4, 2008
Time	Venue	Event	Speaker/Moderator
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Krueger Library, WSU Main Campus	Art Exhibit (Plant Studies from the Tallgrass Prairie) by George Olson
8:00 am - 4:00 pm	Paul Watkins Gallery, WSU Main Campus	Art Exhibit (Where the Prairie Meets the River)
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Science Laboratory Center (SLC) Atrium	Registration and Social (The 21st North American Prairie Conference)

Tuesday August 5, 2008
Time	Venue	Event	Speaker/Moderator
8:00 am - 8:15 am	Somsen Auditorium Reception Area (SO 214)	A Gathering
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Science Laboratory Center (SLC) Atrium	Vendors and Exhibits
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Krueger Library, WSU Main Campus	Art Exhibit (Plant Studies from the Tallgrass Prairie) by George Olson
8:00 am - 4:00 pm	Paul Watkins Gallery, WSU Main Campus	Art Exhibit (Where the Prairie Meets the River)
8:15 am - 8:20 am	Somsen Auditorium (SO 214)	Opening Remarks & Introductions	Dr. Bruno Borsari
8:20 am - 8:30 am	Somsen Auditorium (SO 214)	Welcome	Dr. Harold Ornes, Dean of Science and Engineering, Winona State University
8:30 am - 9:30 am	Somsen Auditorium (SO 214)	Keynote Address: From Brome, Beans & Bovine to Bluestem, Blazing Star & Bison	Pauline Drobney, Land Management and Research Demonstration Biologist, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge
9:30 am - 9:45 am	Science Laboratory Center Atrium	Break
	Concurrent Seminar Session 1
Time	Stark Auditorium, Rm 103 Prairie Management 1	Stark Lecture Rm 106 Prairie Entomology 1	Stark Lecture Rm 108 Prairie Zoology 1
9:45 am - 10:15 am	THE EFFECTS OF ANNUAL RYE (LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM) ON NATIVE PLANT ESTABLISHMENT WHEN SEEDED AS A NURSE CROP IN A PRAIRIE RECONSTRUCTION Dave Williams; Daryl Smith	MOVEMENT OF KARNER BLUE BUTTERFLIES INTO AND BETWEEN PRAIRIE RESTORATIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ESTABLISHING A VIABLE METAPOPULATION John Shillinglaw; Craig Shillinglaw	REPATRIATION OF MASSASAUGAS (Sistrurus catenatus) TO THE OJIBWAY PRAIRIE IN WINDSOR, ONTARIO Paul Pratt; Karen Cedar
10:15 am - 10:45 am	THE EFFECTS OF PLANTING METHODS ON SEEDLING EMERGENCE AND ESTABLISHMENT IN A TALLGRASS PRAIRIE RECONSTRUCTION Justin V. Huisman; Daryl D. Smith; Dave W. Williams	A PRAIRIE SO FULL OF PLANTS (but what about the bugs?) M. J. Hatfield	MANAGEMENT FOR HENSLOW’S SPARROWS (AMMODRAMUS HENSLOWI) AT GREAT RIVER BLUFFS STATE PARK IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA Raymond A. Faber
10:45 am - 11:15 am	THE EFFECTS OF VARYING SEEDING RATES OF BOUTELOUA CURTIPENDULA AND MOWING ON NATIVE PLANT ESTABLISHMENT IN A NEW PRAIRIE RECONSTRUCTION Ryan Welch; Daryl Smith; Dave Williams	AN INVENTORY OF PRAIRIE LEPIDOPTERA IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA STATE PARKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Shawn Fritcher; James Bess	PERCHED SAND FAUNAS IN THE UPPER MIDWEST Philip A. Cochran

11:15 am - 11:45 am	Concurrent Poster Session 1 (Odd-Numbered Posters) Pasteur Hallway, First Floor
Easel 1 Agriculture (soil)	ORGANIC MATTER IN REMNANT AND RESTORED CAJUN PRAIRIE SOILS Domingo M. Jariel; Malcom F. Vidrine; Melody A. Mansfield	Easel 11 Prairie Restoration	SEEDS OF SUCCESS NATIONAL TALLGRASS PRAIRIE SEED BANK PROJECT AT THE CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN Emily Yates; Dave Sollenberger; Pati Vitt
Easel 3 Agriculture (soil)	CHANGES IN THE CARBON STOCKS OF AN ILLINOIS RESTORED PRAIRIE AND THE IMPLICATION FOR CARBON SEQUESTRATION Roser Matamala; Julie Jastrow; R. Michael Miller; Chuck T. Garten; Susan J. Kirt	Easel 13 Prairie Restoration	EFFECTS OF HERBICIDE AND SEEDING TREATMENTS ON RESTORATION OF ROADSIDE VEGETATION: LIMITATIONS OF SHORT-TERM STUDIES Robin W. Tyser; Jennifer M. Asebrook
Easel 5 Seeds, Seed Ecology, Seedlings	SEED SIZE VARIATION AND ITS EFFECT ON SEED GERMINATION IN GENTIANA PUBERULENTA Janet Gehring; Samuel Baker; Frances Bemer; John Holmes; Eric Illian; Kaylin McMahon	Easel 15 Prairie Restoration	THE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC NITROGEN APPLICATION ON A MATURE TALLGRASS PRAIRIE RESTORATION AND NITROGEN MOBILIZATION INTO ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS OF ANDROPOGON GERARDII Ann M. O’Neill; Paul E. Rothrock; Robert T. Reber
Easel 7 Educational Issues	RESTORED AND MARGINAL PRAIRIES: BIGGER IS BETTER BUT NOT NECESSARY Paul Melchior; Craig Longtine	Easel 17 Prairie Restoration	USE OF SOIL DISTURBANCE AND RE-SEEDING TO INCREASE PRAIRIE PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS IN A POST-AGRICULTURAL FIELD IN SOUTHWEST OHIO John E. Silvius; Jessicah R. Zehring; Tara A. Lawler
Easel 9 Prairie Management	A PRAIRIE GEM IN IOWA Johanna Foster; James Trager; Edwin Freese	Easel 19 Riparian Flood Plain	RIPARIAN FOREST ASSOCIATED WITH TALL-GRASS PRAIRIE: SPECIES COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA Thomas L. Freeman

11:30 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch (on your own)
	Concurrent Seminar Session 2
Time	Stark Auditorium, Rm 103 Prairie Restoration 1	Stark Lecture Rm 106 Riparian Flood Plain Prairie Wetlands	Stark Lecture Rm 108 Anthropology Educational Issues 1
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	INCREASING SEED DENSITY IN RESTORATION PLANTING: GREATER RICHNESS OR MORE OF THE SAME? William J. Sluis; Michael Matthews	A FLORISTIC ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF TWO WET MEADOWS IN THE MIDDLE AND SOUTH LOUP RIVER VALLEYS OF NEBRASKA Steven J. Rothenberger; Sara L. Veloso; Joelle J. McGee	THE PLACE FOR PRAIRIE CONSERVATION IN THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY: THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF NATURAL RESOURCE AGENCY EMPLOYEES AND CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION MEMBERS Todd Paddock
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	AND PRAIRIE ECOLOGY AND RESTORATION ON ARMY LANDS: A PRIMER FOR LAND MANAGERS Kurt A. Brownell	EVALUATING THE HYDROECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FLOOD PLAIN RESTORATION IN THE HEADWATERS OF THE EAST BRANCH PECATONICA RIVER, WISCONSIN Eric G. Booth; Steven Loheide	LEARNING ABOUT PRAIRIE RESTORATION ECOLOGY IN LARGE INTRODUCTORY BIOLOGY COURSES Bruno Borsari; Ken Graetz; Joan Bernard
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	FORB SPECIES ESTABLISHMENT INCREASES WITH DECREASING GRASS SEEDING DENSITY AND WITH INCREASING FORB SEEDING DENSITY IN AN EXPERIMENTAL PRAIRIE RECONSTRUCTION Timothy L. Dickson; William H. Busby	EMERGENT WETLANDS RESTORED IN YAHARA RIVER AT CHEROKEE MARSH AND LAKE LEVEL REGULATIONS CHALLENGES TO RESTORATION EFFORTS Russ Hefty	A PRAIRIE STORY: A COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL VENTURE BETWEEN KIRKSVILLE SCHOOLS, THE MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION, AND TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY Lin Twining; Karen Armstrong
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm	Break, Science Laboratory Center Atrium
	Concurrent Seminar Session 3
	Stark Auditorium, Rm 103 Landscape Ecology	Stark Lecture Rm 106 Prairie Exhibits (Art, Literature, Photography, History)	Stark Lecture Rm 108 Invasive Species Affecting Prairies 1
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	FROM INSPIRATION TO RESTORATION: REPORT ON THE FIRST SIX YEARS OF THE RICE LAKE PLAINS JOINT INITIATIVE Todd Farrell; Mark Stabb	PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE ROLES OF THE PRAIRIE ARTIST George Olson	ALLELOPATHIC EFFECTS OF SERICEA LESPEDEZA ON PRAIRIE SPECIES Erica A Corbett
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR TALLGRASS PRAIRIE REMNANT DISTRIBUTION IN THE SOUTHWEST GRASSLANDS AREA OF WISCONSIN Alexandra Wells; John Harrington	ALCHEMY OF AWARENESS: HOW PRAIRIE EXPERIENCES BECOME AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION Marilyn Klinkner	ACCELERATING REED CANARYGRASS CONTROL WITH INTEGRATED VEGETATION MANAGEMENT Craig Annen
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm	SPATIAL PATTERNS AND THE CHANGES IN UNDERLYING HETEROGENEITY OF REMNANT PRAIRIES IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN Carrie E. Read; John A. Harrington
Dinner (on your own)
Time	Venue	Event	Speaker/Moderator
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Paul Watkins Gallery (Adjacent to Pasteur Hall and Science Laboratory Center, WSU main campus.)	Open Progressive Reception: "Where the Prairie Meets the River"
6:30 pm- 8:00 pm	Winona Art Gallery (228 East Fifth Street, Winona, MN)	Open Progressive Reception: "Where the Prairie Meets the River"
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm	Pasteur Hall 105	Conference Meeting: The Next North American Prairie Conference: Timing & Host	Dr. Bruno Borsari
7:45 pm - 8:45 pm	Pasteur Hall 105	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mtg.	Pam Bailey

Wednesday August 6, 2008
Time	Venue	Event	Speaker/Moderator/Field Guide
7:40 am - 8:00 am	Meet at Mark Street Silver Parking Lot for Field Trips numbered 1 through 10. Meet at WSU River Explorer, N Johnson Street and Front Street, Levee Park, Winona for Field Trip numbered 11	A Gathering & Boarding of Busses
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Science Laboratory Center Atrium	Vendors and Exhibits
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Krueger Library, WSU Main Campus	Art Exhibit (Plant Studies from the Tallgrass Prairie) by George Olson
8:00 am - 8:00 pm	Paul Watkins Gallery, WSU Main Campus	Art Exhibit (Where the Prairie Meets the River)
		Field Trip: 1: Houston Nat. Ctr ++	Karla Kinstler; Ellen Fuge; Russ Smith
		Field Trip: 2: Weaver Dunes ++	Rich Biske; Kurt Brownell
		Field Trip: 3: Prairie Moon Nurs ++	Carol Jefferson; Bill Carter; Steve Haines; Alan Wade
		Field Trip: 4 :Alt. Energy P&P ++	Eric Kreidermacher; Paul Kreidermacher; Daryl Buck
		Field Trip: 5: Whitewater Mgmt. ++	Jaime Edwards; Jon Cole
		Field Trip: 6: Chester Woods C.P.	Joel Dunnette;
		Field Trip: 7: Great River Bluffs S.P.	Ray Faber; Shawn Fritcher; Ellen Fuge
		Field Trip: 8: Trempealeau Nat.Ref.	Vickie Hirschboeck; Jennifer Lilla; Tom O'brien
		Field Trip: 9: Holland Sand Pr. ++	Jessica Bolwahn; Jim Rogala; Bob Lee
		Field Trip: 10: Effigy Mounds Nat. M	Rodney Rovang
8:00 am - 10:00 am	Meet at WSU River Explorer, N Johnson Street and Front Street, Levee Park, Winona, at beginning of time period for Field Trips numbered 11 through 14.	Field Trip: 11: MS River. Excursion	Barry Drazkowski
10:00 am - 12:00 pm		Field Trip: 12: MS River. Excursion	Barry Drazkowski
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm		Field Trip: 13: MS River. Excursion
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm		Field Trip: 14: MS River. Excursion	Calvin Fremling
Break			WINONA MAP
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Lake Park Jaycee Pavilion, Franklin Street by Lake Park Drive and Lake Winona	Field Trip Rendezvous
6:00 pm - ?	Lake Park Jaycee Pavilion	Barbecue Dinner	Music by David Echelard
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Lake Park Band Shell (1 block west of Jaycee Pavilion barbecue area)	Winona Municipal Band Concert	Richard (Dick) Lindner, Conductor

Thursday August 7, 2008
Time	Venue	Event	Speaker/Moderator
8:00 am - 8:20 am	Somsen Auditorium Reception Area (SO 214)	A Gathering
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Science Laboratory Center (SLC) Atrium	Vendors and Exhibits
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Krueger Library, WSU Main Campus	Art Exhibit (Plant Studies from the Tallgrass Prairie) by George Olson
8:00 am - 4:00 pm	Paul Watkins Gallery, WSU Main Campus	Art Exhibit (Where the Prairie Meets the River)
8:20 am - 8:25 am	Somsen Auditorium (SO 214)	Opening Remarks & Introductions	Dr. Bruno Borsari
8:25 am - 9:25 am	Somsen Auditorium (SO 214)	Plenary Address: Kurschskaya Kosa (Curonian Spit) as an UNESCO object and its potential as a zone of ecotourism	Prof. Dr. Viktor Dedkov, Dean of Bioecology, Immanuel Kant State University of Russia
9:30 am - 9:45 am	Science Laboratory Center Atrium	Break
	Concurrent Seminar Session 4
	Stark Auditorium, Rm 103 Prairie Restoration 2	Stark Lecture Rm 106 Prairie and Sustainability 1	Stark Lecture Rm 108 Educational Issues 2
9:45 am - 10:15 am	RECOVERY OF LISTED SPECIES WITHIN THE NATIVE PRAIRIES OF THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY, OREGON Jonathan Beall; Steve Smith; Cat Brown	SUCCESSFUL AND AWARD WINNING RESTORATIONS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS AND OPEN SPACES - HOW TO COMMUNICATE TO THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND TO THE BUYING PUBLIC Jack Pizzo	WHAT LAURA SAW: MAKING A LITTLE HOME ON THE EXTREME GREAT PLAINS James Armstrong; Kim Chapman
10:15 am - 10:45 am	THE ECOLOGICAL INFLUENCE OF PEDICULARIS CANADENSIS IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN DRY REMNANT PRAIRIES Lars Higdon	SURVIVAL OF THE WESTERN PRAIRIE FRINGED ORCHID AT PIPESTONE NATIONAL MONUMENT Gary D. Wilson; F. Adnan Akyuz	BRINGING THE PRAIRIE TO THE PUBLIC: PART TWO Steven R. Johnson; Mary V. Stark
10:45 am - 11:15 am	LITTLE BLUESTEM PRAIRIE ESTABLISHMENT USING A TECHNIQUE OF CLOSE MOWING FOR TWO GROWING SEASONS Maurice H. Brucker; Emiko Yang	WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PRAIRIES WITHIN CLIMATE CHANGE? Bonnie L. Harper-Lore	PRAIRIE WINDOW PROJECT: PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGH PRAIRIE RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION IN SC KANSAS Brad Guhr; Susan Reimer

11:15 am - 11:45 am	Concurrent Poster Session 2 (Even-Numbered Posters) Pasteur Hallway, First Floor
Easel 2 Agriculture (soil)	PLANT AND SOIL NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS IN A RESTORED CAJUN PRAIRIE Domingo M. Jariel; Malcom F. Vidrine; Rallen R. Fontenot; Caroline E. Vidrine	Easel 12 Prairie Restoration	THE SEEDS OF SUCCESS NATIONAL TALLGRASS PRAIRIE SEED BANK PROJECT: CONSERVING GENETIC DIVERSITY FOR HABITAT RESTORATION Dave Sollenberger; Emily Yates; Pati Vitt
Easel 4 Seeds, Seed Ecology, Seedlings	VIABILITY OF NATIVE WARM-SEASON GRASS SEEDS AFTER 30 YEARS OF STORAGE UNDER TWO DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS John M. Row; Richard L. Wynia	Easel 14 Prairie Restoration	AN EVALUATON OF PRAIRIE TRANSPLANT METHODS Thomas Rosburg
Easel 6 Plant Physiology and Botany	ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF CAJUN PRAIRIE HERBS ON THE GROWTH OF Listeria monocytogenes Jameel Al-Dujaili; Malcolm F. Vidrine	Easel 16 Prairie Restoration	ROLE OF MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI IN NATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTED TALLGRASS PRAIRIES Mary C. Damm
Easel 8 Invasive Species	EXPERIMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF COMMON BUCKTHORN RHAMNUS CATHARTICA ON A DRY BLUFF SAVANNA RESTORATION SITE Elizabeth Eaton; Sherry Brutt; Kellie Perterson; Neal Mundahl	Easel 18 Prairie Restoration	RESTORATION OF BEDROCK DRY PRAIRIE AND NORTHERN BUR OAK SAVANNA REMNANTS, GARVIN HEIGHTS PARK, SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA Carol A. Jefferson; Peter Simon III
Easel 10 Prairie Restoration	THE EFFECTS OF FIRE FREQUENCY ON BIG BLUESTEM DOMINANCE AND PLANT DIVERSITY IN A MICHIGAN PRAIRIE RESTORATION Justin Heslinga; Robert E. Grese	Easel 20 Riparian Flood Plain	WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN AN URBAN WATERSHED Liz Queathem; Gene Rohr; Jean Perri; Doris Hotchkin; Bob Wemer; Kim Greenberg

11:30 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch (on your own)
	Concurrent Seminar Session 5
	Stark Auditorium, Rm 103 Prairie Management 2	Stark Lecture Rm 106 Prairie Entomology 2	Stark Lecture Rm 108 Plant Physiology and Botany 1
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR CANADA THISTLE IN NATIVE PRAIRIES Roger Becker; Milt Haar; Luke Skinner; Judy Markl; Dennis Opdahl; Mark Gulick	BUTTERFLY HABITAT RESTORATION ON RECLAIMED MINED LAND OF THE WILDS IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO Nicole Cavender	ANAYLSIS OF PRAIRIE SPECIES DISTRIBUTION AT FORT POLK, LOUISISANA Charles Allen
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	A METHOD TO CONTROL SMOOTH SUMAC WHILE MAINTAINING PRAIRIE BIODIVERSITY James Stubbendieck	A COMPARISON OF CARABID BEETLE ASSEMBLAGES BETWEEN TWO FIELD TYPES IN WESTERN KANSAS Shaun Dunn; Rob Channell	SCREENING NATIVE GRASSES FOR BELOWGROUND TRAITS IMPORTANT FOR BIOENERGY PRODUCTION AND SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION Susan J. Kirt; R. Michael Miller
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	SOME OBSERVATIONS OF LONG-TERM PRAIRIE PLANT SUCCESSION AND STRUCTURE AT THE U.W. ARBORETUM J.A. Schwartzmeier	IMPACTS OF THE WEEVIL APION ROSTRUM ON SEED PRODUCTION IN WILD CREAM INDIGO BAPTISIA LEUCOPHAEA Kasey M. Plucinski; Neal D. Mundahl	IMPROVING GERMINATION OF POVERTY GRASS (Danthonia spicata (L.) BEAUV. EX. ROEM & SCHULT Nadia E. Navarette-Tindall; Hwei-Yiing Johnson; J. W. Van Sambeek
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm	Break, Science Laboratory Center Atrium
	Concurrent Seminar Session 6
	Stark Auditorium, Rm 103 Invasive Species Affecting Prairies 2	Stark Lecture Rm 106 Prairie Entomology 3 Prairie and the River 1	Stark Lecture Rm 108 Plant physiology and Botany 2
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	EXPLAINING EXTRAORDINARY COMMUNITY DIVERSITY AMONG NEIGHBORING TALLGRASS PRAIRIE REMNANTS VIA EXOTIC PLANT INVASIONS Devan Allen McGranahan; David M. Engle; James R. Miler; Diane M. Debinski	CHANGES IN THE WILD BEE FAUNA OF ROCKEFELLER PRAIRIE Jennifer L. Hopwood	GENETIC RELATIONSHIP AMONG POVERTY GRASS (danthonia spicata) ECOYPES COLLECTED FROM MISSOURI AND MINNESOTA AS REVEALED BY TRAP DNA MARKERS Hwei-Yiing Johnson; Nadia Navarrete-Tindall; Jinguo Hu
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	IMPACTS OF REED CANARYGRASS (PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA L.) ON COMMUNITIES OF SMALL MAMMALS Robert W. Bade; Brock R. McMillan	MITES IN MOLLUSKS IN THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND THEIR COMMUNITY STRUCTURE Malcolm F. Vidrine; Bruno Borsari	QUANTIFYING GRANIVORY IN A RECONSTRUCTED PRAIRIE: AFFECTS OF SEASON, SPECIES, SEED PREDATORS, SACRIFICIAL FOOD, AND THE CHEMICAL DETERRENT CAPSAICIN Craig Hemsath; Laura L. Jackson
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm		USE OF WATERSHED MODEL FOR ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OF PRAIRIE GRASSLANDS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Mahesh Pun; Wayne E. Woldt
	Break
Time	Venue	Event	Speaker/Moderator
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Tau Center Rotunda WSU West Campus	Convivial Soirée
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Lourdes Hall, WSU West Campus	Banquet Dinner
7:00 pm		Awards
7:10 pm		A Native American Prairie Reflection	Dr. James Reidy; Ray Takes War Bonnette

Friday August 8, 2008
Time	Venue	Event	Speaker/Moderator
8:00 am - 8:20 am	Science Laboratory Center (SLC) Atrium	A Gathering
8:00 am - 12:00 pm	Science Laboratory Center (SLC) Atrium	Vendors and Exhibits
8:00 am - 12:00 pm	Krueger Library	Art Exhibit (Plant Studies from the Tallgrass Prairie) by George Olson
8:00 am - 4:00 pm	Krueger Library, WSU Main Campus	Art Exhibit (Where the Prairie Meets the River)
	Concurrent Seminar Session 7
	Stark Auditorium, Rm 103 Prairie Management 3 Prairie Restoration 3	Stark Lecture Rm 106 Prairie and the River 2 Prairie and Sustainability 2	Stark Lecture Rm 108 Seeds, Seed Ecology, Seedlings
8:15 am - 8:45 am	RESISTANCRESISTANCE TO INVASIVE CANADA THISTLE (Cirsium arvense) DURING PRAIRIE ESTABLISHEMENT