PRESENTED BY DEEP ROOTS

Alan Branhagen

Executive Director, Natural Land Institute & Author

Chris Oursler

DCA Outdoor, Landscape and New Product Design

Jim Locklear

Author of In the Country of the Kaw and Director of Conservation, Lauritzen Garden

Doug Ladd

Author of Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Common Wildflowers and Plants of the Prairie Midwest

Kristen Heath-Acre

Missouri State Ornithologist

Caleb Sanders

Springfield, Missouri Parks, Conservation Coordinator, Special Facilities

Guy Sternberg

Co-Founder Starhill Forest Arboretum and Author

Claudia Nuñez-Penichet, Ph.D.

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech

Rashid Poulson

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Horticultural Director

Justin Thomas

Institute of Botanical Training , Director and Primary Instructor

Krista Noel

Missouri Dept of Conservation, Kansas City Regional Natural History Biologist

Shannon Tyree

Habitat Architects, President and Owner

Chris Helzer

The Nature Conservancy, Nebraska, Director of Science and Stewardship; Author

Fred Rozumalski

Barr Engineering Company, Ecologist and Landscape Architect

Nick Nelson

Springfield Art Museum, Director

Shannon Currey

Izel Native Plants, Education & Outreach

Nancy Lawson

Author of The Humane Gardener

Annabel Renwick

Curator, Blomquist Garden of Native Plants