Ticketed Event
Vino in the Valley
Maiden Rock, WI

5:00 Social Hour w/two drink tickets
(includes wagon ride along the vineyard and Rush River)
6:30 Dinner and N/A beverage
8:00 Speaker Doug Tallamy
9:15 Trillium Award Presentation

Early-bird Tickets are $125, after April 1, 2025 tickets are $165

Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 112 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 44 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. His books includeBringing Nature Home,The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke,Nature's Best Hope, a New York Times Best Seller,The Nature of Oaks, winner of the American Horticultural Society’s 2022 book award.   In 2021 he cofounded Homegrown National Park with Michelle Alfandari (HomegrownNationalPark.org). His awards include recognition from The Garden Writer’s Association, Audubon, The National Wildlife Federation, Allegheny College, Ecoforesters, The Garden Club of America, The Herb Society, and The American Horticultural Association.

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Dan Jackson

(Blackburian Wrabler photo by Dan Jackson)

Dan Jackson has been an outdoorsman for most of his life.  He grew up in the Coulee Region around La Crosse, WI and has lived in rural Chaseburg for over 30 years.  During that time, he has been an avid birder, wildlife photographer, bumble bee surveyor, and a dragonfly researcher.  He has birded throughout Wisconsin, the Midwest, and elsewhere in the United States and a few places around the world when opportunities arose.

Dan is a Wisconsin Master Naturalist, a past President and the current Treasurer of the Wisconsin Dragonfly Society, and a past President and current board member of the Coulee Region Audubon Society.  He is also a record reviewer for the Wisconsin Odonata Survey, BugGuide.net, and Odonata Central (the Odonata survey of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas).  He has also served as a record reviewer for eBird.  

Dan has participated in many volunteer research activities and citizen science projects including the Wisconsin Odonata Survey, the Minnesota Odonata Survey, the Dragonfly Society of the Americas Dragonfly Survey, the Wisconsin Butterfly Survey, the Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas, the USGS Breeding Bird Survey, the Wisconsin Owl Survey, the Wisconsin Nightjar Survey, Kirtland’s Warbler surveys, Christmas Bird Counts, the Wisconsin Frog Survey, the Wisconsin Bumble Bee Brigade, the Wisconsin Mussel Monitoring Program, iNaturalist, and the Great Backyard Bird Count.  He has also led hundreds of field trips in search of birds and Odonata, and regularly does presentations on dragonflies, butterflies, birds, and nature photography.

As a wildlife photographer, Dan has spent countless hours in the field and has taken pictures of hundreds of species of birds, dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies, and many other species of insects, plants, and animals.  Some of his photos have been published in magazines, birding publications, newspapers, field guides, websites, and journals including “Dragonflies of the Northwoods”, “Dragonflies of Wisconsin”, “Damselflies of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan”, “Dragonflies of Australia”, the Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine, the Badger Birder, Argia, and the Big River Magazine.  He is also a co-author of the latest edition of the “Dragonflies of Wisconsin” field guide.

Dan’s presentation “Warblers of the Driftless Area” is designed to be a fun, informative introduction to spring warblers aimed at helping birders prepare for the spring warbler migration.  It includes pictures of common and a few uncommon warblers that can be found in the Driftless area of SE Minnesota, SW Wisconsin, and NE Iowa as well as recordings of their songs.