February program meeting

Our February program will be “Managing Working Landscapes in Grasslands with Birds in Mind,” by Evalynn Trumbo. Evalynn will go over a variety of management techniques that are meant to balance the needs of working landscapes, such as pastures or rangelands, and the needs of birds that require varying grassland habitats.

Evalynn works at Wichita State University as a research project manager in the Biological Sciences Department. She manages a large, multi-faceted research project to study bird and plant communities in cattle grazed CRP lands. She did her bachelor’s at the University of Missouri in Columbia in Fisheries and Wildlife Science and her master’s at the University of Illinois in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences studying the post-fledging survival of Golden- cheeked Warblers. She’s an avid birder from Missouri, but has worked in a variety of states from Texas to North Dakota. She enjoys doing outreach and extension work in natural resources, particularly when it comes to birds! She also serves on the WAS board of directors.

If you can’t attend in person, a recording will be on Youtube the next day.