March 14, The Ecology and Economy of our Lakes

The 2019 Wisconsin Lakes Partnership Convention is around the corner, and this year’s theme is “Paying it Forward”. We’ll talk with the two keynote speakers, one an ecological economist and the other an entomologist, to learn about the relationship between humans and the natural world.

Dr. Kate Brauman is the lead scientist for Global Water Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, where she studies the coupled interaction of land-use change and water resources. Kate brings together the study of hydrology and plant-water relations with economics and policy to explore the effects of land cover on water delivery to downstream users. Dr. Douglas W. Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has taught for nearly forty years. Dr. Tallamy is the author of the best-selling garden book, Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants.

We’ll also talk with Patrick Goggin, a lakes outreach specialist with UW Extension Lakes who helps homeowners and lake organizations get involved in shoreland restoration and protecting healthy lakes, and Eric Olson, director and outreach specialist with UW Extension Lakes. He helps lake organizations increase their capacity to be active players in protection and restoration of Wisconsin’s water resources.