Pollinators, Plants, and People
Sunday, July 21st, 2024, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Westminster West Church, 44 Church Street, Westminster West, VT
Pre-registration requested. By donation, free option included.
Co-Sponsored by The Vermont Biodiversity Alliance, the Living Earth Action Group, and Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center
Join us for an evening with acclaimed author, teacher, poet and naturalist, Dr. Robert Michael Pyle. Dr. Pyle is the author of the Audubon Society Field Guide to Butterflies, founder of the Xerces Society, and one of North America’s leading voices for conservation and connection with nature. Learn about the intricate web of plant-insect-bird coevolution and how our human story is also deeply interrelated and interdependent. Supporting insect life through stewardship of even the smallest plot of land is a crucial act that benefits the entire ecology and food web of a region. In this presentation, Dr. Pyle will share personal stories and insights from a life dedicated to research and effective activism.
Join Dr. Pyle and Florence Sage on Monday evening in Bellows Falls for a poetry reading reflecting on the presence of nature in our lives. Learn more here
About the Xerces Society
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is an international nonprofit organization that protects the natural world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats. The Xerces Society is a science-based conservation organization, working with diverse partners that include scientists, land managers, educators, policymakers, farmers, and communities. By utilizing applied research, engaging in advocacy, providing educational resources, addressing policy implications, and building community, we endeavor to make meaningful long-term conservation a reality. Learn more here
About Dr. Robert Michael Pyle
Dr. Robert Michael Pyle trained at Yale in butterfly ecology, and has worked in various conservation biology positions around the world and as a writer, teacher, and speaker. His 28 books include standards such as the Audubon Society Field Guide to the Butterflies of North America, and the Butterflies of Cascadia, as well as fiction, poetry, and essay, and have received a Guggenheim Fellowship and many other awards. Pyle founded the renowned Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in 1971. For his work he has been named an Honorary Life Fellow of both the Royal and American Entomological Societies. For forty years he has dwelled beside and studied life along Gray’s River in the Willapa Hills of southwest Washington.
This event is co-sponsored by The Vermont Biodiversity Alliance and the Living Earth Action Group, and Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center
