Keynote Speaker

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Wendy Jo Ledbetter

Forest Program Manager, Texas Chapter of The Nature Conservancy

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Wendy Jo Ledbetter will be the Keynote Speaker at TXSER's 2016 Annual Conference:  Linking Science & Practice.  With many years of experience protecting and restoring forests in East Texas and beyond, Ledbetter will offer us insight into how the field of ecolofical restoration is a science, driven by practical application.  She will provide us with an overview of longleaf pine restoration and how we settled upon currently accepted practices.  She will discuss how large-scale restoration is carried out highlighting partnership development, building a culture of fire, and sharing with us success stories and ongoing challenges.

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Ledbetter's opening keynote address will set the stage for thought and discussion about how we, as both scientists and practitioners, can create linkages for improved communications whereby date-based science is transferred to practitioners and knowledge gaps and areas needing further study are conveyed back.

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Wendy Jo Ledbetter and colleague Paul Tinerella at Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary.

Photo credit:  Dale Kruse, TAMU.

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