** ARCHIVED POST – LINKS AND IMAGES MAY NOT WORK**
Join NPSOT-Wilco on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at 7:00 pm, when Sean Griffin will present Restoring Habitat in Texas to Protect Our Native Pollinators. This meeting will be held both in person and online via Zoom.
- The in-person meeting is in the Maple Room at Brushy Creek Community Center, located at 16318 Great Oaks Drive, Round Rock, TX 78681.
- If you attend in person, you are giving consent to be videoed for Zoom and YouTube.
- To attend via Zoom instead of in person, you must register at https://npsot-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkd-quqzwrGdVh6eFRhDKcAqU-PTtJX6yy
About our topic: Bees, butterflies, and other pollinators are declining worldwide, due in large part to the loss of their native habitat. In his presentation, Dr. Griffin will talk about his research into how ecological restoration can be used to protect these important pollinators in Texas, and discuss ways that you can encourage diverse communities of beneficial insects on your own land.
About our guest speaker: Dr. Sean Griffin is a restoration ecologist broadly interested in wild bee conservation, fire ecology, and the recovery of degraded grasslands. He earned his PhD in 2019 from Michigan State University, where he used experimentally restored habitats to study bee movement across fragmented landscapes. In the Jha Lab at UT Austin he is now examining how prescribed burning and other forms of restoration management affect plant and pollinator communities in Texas prairies. Sean is also very interested in community engagement, and is actively involved in environmental education, citizen science, and pollinator-focused outreach. You can learn more about Sean’s work at his website srgriffin.com.
At every meeting, we give away a book — about native plants or the meeting topic — to one randomly chosen meeting attendee!
NPSOT-Williamson County meetings are free and open to the public. We hope you attend! Meetings may be in person, virtual, or both, so be sure to check details in the meeting announcement. Meetings are announced on our website, our calendar and Facebook.
** ARCHIVED POST – LINKS AND IMAGES MAY NOT WORK**