<HEAD>
<STYLE>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</STYLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5626" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY id=compText>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Save the date — February 7 — for the third biennial Wild Things conference, a gathering of this region’s nature conservation community, this time at the University of Illinois at Chicago. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">***You’re invited to consider making a presentation — or recommend others to do so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you think of someone in our community who has shown inspiring leadership and who we can learn something important from? Perhaps a good way of attracting volunteers, or a technique to make restoration or monitoring more effective? This doesn’t have to be a 40-minute presentation; sessions can be divided among two to four people. Or have you heard a great speaker that we all could benefit from? Please see our call for presentations and nominations for details. (The deadline to respond is October 20th, 2008.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s all on our website - http://www.habitatproject.org/wildthings2009<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">***Can you help ensure that the conference information gets to your organization's newsletter editor, webmaster, or listserve operator? If you don't think you received this kind of information for the 2007 conference, please contact Ryan White, Audubon field representative at 4ryanwhite@gmail.com.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Our keynote speaker this year is Doug Ladd, Director of Conservation Science, Missouri Field Office of The Nature Conservancy. He will share reflections — inspirational, humorous and a little philosophical — from his many years of experience in natural areas management in our region. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">More information will be posted on the website in the coming months. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P>Judy Pollock</P>
<P><A href="mailto:jpollock@audubon.org">jpollock@audubon.org</A><BR></P></BODY>