Native Plants As Habitat For Wildlife - Native Plant Society of ...

Workshop Program and Table of Contents
Friday, February 2 nd
Workshop Chair – Ray McDougald Page #
8:00 Registration
8:50 Opening remarks (Renny Grilz)
9:00 Morning Session (Chair – Debbie Nilesen – Shand Greenhouse)
9:00 Biodiversity and the link between native habitat and wildlife - Alan
Appleby (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society) ................................................1
9:30 Saskatchewan Biodiversity Action Plan – Lin Gallagher (Saskatchewan
Environment and Resource Management)...............................................................2
9:50 Prairie Conservation Action Plan – Karyn Scalise (Prairie Conservation
Action Plan) .............................................................................................................5
10:10 BREAK
10:30 The Government of Canada Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at
Risk – Dean Nernberg (Canadian Wildlife Service)................................................7
10:50 Loss and degradation of native Mixed Grass prairie: implications for
grassland bird conservation in Saskatchewan – Steve Davis (Saskatchewan
Wetland Conservation Corporation)......................................................................11
11:10 Native plants as spider habitat – Jeanette Pepper (Saskatchewan
Conservation Data Centre).....................................................................................12
11:30 LUNCH –
12:20 NPSS Business Meeting (Chair - Renny Grilz, NPSS/Ducks Unlimited
Canada)
1:40 Afternoon Session (Chair – Chris Nykoluk, Prairie Farm Rehabilitation
Administration)
1:40 Plant Quest program – Jim Elliot (Nature Saskatchewan)
1:45 Some Plant-Wildlife Relationships in the Lake Athabasca Sand Dunes -
Peter Jonker (Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan) ..........................13
2:35 Plants in the inland aquatic environment: their role in a healthy ecosystem
– Katherine Gerein (National Water Research Institute).......................................14
3:00 BREAK
3:30 The Missouri Coteau – biodiversity and wildlife management – Lyle
Saigeon (Ducks Unlimited Canada).......................................................................15
3:55 Grazing and fire management impacts on wildlife habitat – Conrad Olson
(Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management)....................................16
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