Lessons Learned in Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity

Note: This meeting is rescheduled from Thursday, May 1 to Monday, May 12 and will be a hybrid meeting both in-person at Dakota Lodge and on-line through Zoom. MNNPS members, check your email for instructions.

Presenters: Bonnie Harper-Lore & Gary Lore

Program: LESSONS LEARNED IN PROTECTING AND RESTORING BIODIVERSITY, a new book by 85 scientists, educators, practitioners, policymakers and citizen scientists, published 9.13.24 by Cambridge Scholars Press.

Gary Lore and Bonnie Harper-Lore collected a network of conservation stories, written in the authors’ own voices to share with the next generation, when time and money will continue to be short to solve conservation problems, impacted by  climate change, development, invasives and public policy.

Readers, including students, professionals and advocates can build on these lessons learned at the local, state, federal, and international levels.  Some 52 disciplines are represented because it takes a multidisciplinary approach to do conservation work.  These are the actions we took to get it done.

Gary K. Lore holds a BA in environmental ethics, economics, and communications from Metro State University, Minnesota.  The majority of his career was in integrated vegetation management for the Colorado Department of Highways, followed by consulting in the midwest.  Gary spent 12 years as a federal public affairs officer.  Over time he edited and wrote features and columns for Colorado Streamside Quarterly, Trout magazine, “Outdoor Lore”, Minnesota Vietnam Veterans Quarterly, The Metropolitan (Editor) and more. Gary grew up on the prairie of the Nebraska sand hills.

Bonnie L. Harper-Lore holds a MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she focused on preservation, restoration and management of native plant communities.  As a restoration ecologist she spent 20 years with State and federal roadside programs, providing technical transfer, research oversight and policy support to 50 State Departments of Transportation.  During that time, she served as editor of a quarterly newsletter, Greener Roadsides.  She also co-authored Roadside Use of Native Plants, Roadside Weed Management and Vegetation Management, an Ecoregional Approach. Bonnie grew up in the driftless area of Wisconsin with a goat prairie behind the barn.