Co-presented by:
The Art & Science of Grasslands
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Welcome – Moderator, Michelle Sullivan
9:00-9:10
Ucross Foundation
Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative
The Art
Frank Goodyear
9:10-9:25
Michael Berman
9:30-9:45
Willy Sutton
9:50-10:05
Laura Bell
10:10-10:25
The Science
The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming
We are grateful to all of the symposium presenters for
sharing their experience and expertise, and to the
following for their leadership, inspiration and
commitment to land stewardship:
Jackie Canterbury
10:30-10:45
Brian Mealor
10:50-11:05
Charlie Bettigole with Catherine Kuhn
11:10-11:25
Rick Pallister and Trey Davis
11:30-11:45
John Heyneman
11:50-12:05
Arthur Middleton
12:10-12:25
Apache Foundation
SCiENCE KiDS program
9:00-12:30
Bighorn Audubon Society
Sign up for Afternoon Workshops
Draper Natural History Museum of
the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Art & Science workshops
The Art & Science of Grasslands
Raymond Plank
Plank Stewardship Initiative
Michael Berman and Willy Sutton
Location: in the field/Ucross Ranch
Photography Workshop
Ucross Foundation Board of Trustees
University of Wyoming
Charlie Bettigole and Catherine Kuhn
Location: in the field/Ucross Ranch
Mapping & Hydrology Workshop
Jackie Canterbury and Brian Mealor
Location: in the field/Ucross Ranch
Bird and Plant Walk
Rick Pallister and Trey Davis
Closing reception at the Ucross Art Gallery
Yale University School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies
Science Kids
Naturalist Hike for Kids
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Space is limited – Please RSVP no later than May 28, 2015 at (307) 737-2291
or [email protected] This event is free of charge and includes lunch.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Ucross Foundation
30 Big Red Lane
Ucross, Wyoming
THE ART & SCIENCE OF GRASSLANDS
May 30, 2015
SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOPS
FRANK H. GOODYEAR, JR.
Frank Goodyear is a distinguished writer and curator who has served as Director
of The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, and as Director and President of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His board service includes
The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming, the Yale University Art Gallery, the
Wyoming Community Foundation, Park County Affiliate, the Henry Francis
DuPont Winterthur Museum Advisory Committee, and many others.
MICHAEL P. BERMAN
An award-winning photographer, Michael Berman received a 2008 Guggenheim
Fellowship to photograph the grasslands of the Chihuahuan desert. His art is in
the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum
and the Museum of New Mexico, among many others. He resides in southwest
New Mexico’s Mimbres Valley. His most recent book is The Gila (Museum of
New Mexico Press, 2012), devoted to the borderlands of the U.S. and New
Mexico.
WILLIAM S. SUTTON
William S. Sutton’s awards include a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. His
photographs have been exhibited widely and are in the permanent collections of
the Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Princeton University
Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, the Colorado Historical Society, and
many others. His monograph, At Home in the West: Photographs of Public Land,
was published in 2012. Sutton is a professor at Regis College and lives in the
mountains west of Denver.
LAURA MARSH BELL
Laura Bell’s writing reflects the landscape that has shaped her—the high desert
ranges of northwest Wyoming—and themes of loss and transformation. In her
35 years in Wyoming, she has worked as a sheepherder, cowboy, forest ranger,
massage therapist, horse packer, bookstore and gallery manager, and
conservationist. She has written a memoir Claiming Ground (Knopf, 2010) and is
a recipient of fellowships from the Wyoming Arts Council and the National
Endowment for the Arts. She currently is working in fiction and hopes someday
to be a poet.
JACKIE CANTERBURY
Dr. Jackie Canterbury earned bachelor’s degrees at the University of Washington
and The Evergreen College, and masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. She acquired a passion for birds in college and has worked
as a wildlife biologist on the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. Jackie
later developed a conservation strategy for non-game birds for the state of
Nebraska. Dr. Canterbury has taught at Sheridan College since 2009. She is
President of the Bighorn Audubon Society.
BRIAN MEALOR
Brian Mealor is an Assistant Professor and Director of the University of
Wyoming’s Sheridan Research and Extension Center. His work focuses on
interactions between native and invasive plants, strategic weed management, and
restoring invasive plant-impacted landscapes. He was named Outstanding Young
Range Professional by the Society for Range Management in 2013 and
Outstanding Weed Scientist – Early Career by the Western Society of Weed
Science in 2015.
MICHELLE SULLIVAN
Michelle Sullivan, an educational consultant and new Trustee of the University
of Wyoming, is Principal, Sullivan & Associates and Founder, Center for
Inspired Learning Environments. Her education includes a B.A. Fine Arts,
Colorado College 1986; a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies,
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; a Kellogg National Fellowship;
and an M.A., Education, Harvard University. Her many years of nonprofit
service include the Aspen Institute, the Daniels Fund, the Wyoming State Board
of Education, Ucross Foundation, the Buffalo Bill Center for the West, Wyoming
State Parks & Cultural Resources Commission, and others.
CHARLIE BETTIGOLE
A native of Connecticut, Charlie Bettigole is a wildlife biologist and GIS analyst
by trade. He co-directs the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative (UHPSI)
for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, dividing his time
between Ucross and New Haven. With a fantastic team of master's and doctoral
students, UHPSI develops quantitative, science-based research to support
rangeland management in Wyoming and beyond.
CATHERINE KUHN
Catherine Kuhn is a recent graduate of Yale University’s School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies. Her research in Wyoming, as part of the Ucross High
Plains Stewardship Initiative, focused on the bio-geochemistry of the Clear Creek
watershed.
RICK PALLISTER
Rick Pallister lives in Buffalo and is The Nature Conservancy’s Wyoming
Northeast Program Director.
TREY DAVIS
Trey Davis is The Nature Conservancy’s Wyoming Land Management
Supervisor.
JOHN HEYNEMAN
John Heyneman grew up on a registered cattle ranch in southern Montana. He
served as project manager for Sheridan’s North Main Association, a
citizen’s organization focused on economic revitalization, and from 2010 to 2013
he worked for the Sonoran Institute’s Wyoming Program. Prior to that, he was
General Manager of North Rim Ranch LLC, a large cattle ranch and restoration
project in northern Arizona and southern Utah. He also worked on the Padlock
Ranch. He currently is the Director of the Plank Stewardship Initiative and
serves on the boards of High Country News, First Interstate BancSystem, and
Padlock Ranch.
ARTHUR MIDDLETON
Arthur Middleton, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University’s School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies, has a Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming
(Ecology) and an M.E.M. from Yale University (Biodiversity and ecosystems).
He is currently studying the effects of wolves, bears, and drought on the elk of
the Absaroka Range, conducting research on the nine major migratory elk
populations of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). This work will
culminate in a traveling museum exhibit, developed in partnership with the
Draper Museum of Natural History and the Whitney Western Art Museum at
Wyoming's Buffalo Bill Center of the West, to open in 2016.
AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP – Michael and Willy will gather participants
in the art gallery to introduce some images and ideas, and then everyone will
head out into the field for a walk, to make photographs and talk about
photographing the land.
NATURALIST HIKE FOR KIDS – Rick and Trey will lead a children’s
naturalist hike on the Ucross ranch with topics relating to grassland conservation
and ecology.
MAPPING AND HYDROLOGY WORKSHOP - Charlie and Catherine will
take participants down to Clear Creek, where they will discuss their research,
demonstrate techniques for water-quality sampling, and look at technologies for
mapping in the field. Bring along footwear that you don't mind getting wet and a
smart-phone for mapping if you have one! A kid friendly activity.
BIRD AND PLANT WALK – Jackie and Brian will lead a group into the field
focusing on teaching individuals the art of bird identification by sight and by
sound. Each participant will be encouraged to carry a field notebook, which will
be provided, so they can learn how to keep a field journal. Jackie will also
discuss the current trends in iPhone apps for birding and explain the importance
of eBird, the international database of bird information that is used by scientists.
4:00 p.m. Closing reception for all participants at the Ucross Art Gallery.