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Living With Wildlife Seminar Series

Seminar Series

Living with Wildlife

Presented by Wisconsin Center for Wildlife
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

UW-Stevens Point offers a course called “Living with Wildlife,” designed for students across the UW-Stevens Point campus who want to learn more about wildlife. The course introduces students to wildlife appreciation, human uses, human impacts, and co-existing with wildlife.

The Wisconsin Center for Wildlife hosted the Living With Wildlife Seminar Series through this course. Seminars held fall 2020, spring and fall of 2021 are available to watch below!

Spring

Presented by:

Kent Van Horn

Chief – Bird and Habitat Division
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Presented by:

Colleen Offenbuttel

Black Bear and Furbearer Biologist
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

Presented by:

Scott Hygnstrom, PH.D

Director and Doulas R. Stephens Endowed Chair in Wildlife
Wisconsin Center for Wildlife

Presented by:

John Organ

Former (retired) Chief of USGS Fisheries and Wildlife Cooperative Units
Co-architect of NAMWC

Presented by:

Brilyn Brecka

Wildlife Major and
Adopt-A-Wildlife-Area Project Leader
Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society
UW-Stevens Point

Presented by:

Adrian Wydeven

Chair of the Advisory Council
Timber Wolf Alliance
Northland College

Fall

The first in the Fall 2020 Living with Wildlife Seminar Series, Cathy Techtmann discusses the Gikinoo’wizhiwe Onji Waaban (Guiding for Tomorrow) or “G-WOW” Changing Climate, Changing Culture Initiative which she developed and directs in partnership with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, the US Forest Service, and the National Park Service. Cathy Techtmann is a Professor of Community Resource Development and the University of Wisconsin-Extension Environmental Outreach State Specialist.
Enjoy this recording of the second seminar in the Fall 2020 Living with Wildlife Seminar Series! This seminar features Shanell Budleski, LTE Wildlife Biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Shanell discussed the history of elk reintroduction in Wisconsin, focusing primarily on the newest herd established in Jackson County, Wisconsin. She shared some of the successes, challenges, and issues surrounding elk reintroduction and management in the area. This seminar series is hosted by the Wisconsin Center for Wildlife (WCW) in the College of Natural Resources at UW-Stevens Point.
The third presentation of the Living with Wildlife Seminar Series featured Curt Meine, Senior Fellow of the Aldo Leopold Foundation discusses his role in consulting for the award-winning documentary, “Green Fire- Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time”.
The last presentation of the Living with Wildlife Seminar Series featured information about wildlife heath. Marie Perkins, Ph.D. presents a discussion of how mercury in the environment impacts ecosystems at all levels. Dr. Perkins is the newest member of the UW-Stevens Point wildlife faculty. Her research focuses on investigating the impact of toxicants and pollutants on wildlife.