Grassland Butterfly Symposium 2022

April 22, 2022 Virtual  Lecture (9am-2pm)

April 23, 2022 Optional Field Trip near Livermore (Morning 8am-12pm, Afternoon 1pm-5pm)

Friday Virtual Lecture:

$80 SF Bay Chapter Wildlife Society Members

$100 Non-Members (Includes One Year Chapter Membership)

$40 Student  Rate* (Must demonstrate enrollment after registration)

Saturday Optional Field Trip

$20 Members, Non-Members and Students

Morning Session and Afternoon Session; Limited in Number. Once they fill you will be wait listed

*Student Rate registrations are limited in number.

About the Symposium

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Wildlife Society, in collaboration with the Alameda County Resource Conservation District, is excited to present a symposium on the ecology, management and regulation of three at-risk grassland-associated butterfly species: the Callippe silverspot (Speyeria callippe callippe, federally endangered), Bay checkerspot (Euphydryas editha bayensis, federally threatened) and monarch (Danaus plexippus, federal candidate species).

The two-day workshop will consist of one day of presentations with butterfly experts, land managers and regulators, plus a half-day field trip. The lecture portion will occur at virtually on April 22. The optional field trip will take place at the 3 Calhoun Sisters' Ranch, off of Mines Rd. in Livermore on April 23. The Calhoun Sisters are part of a local ranching family that has been farming and ranching in eastern Alameda County for over 100 years. Their property hosts a diversity of sensitive native wildlife species and habitats, including that which supports monarch butterflies and other pollinators, as well as the host plant of Callippe silverspot. The Calhoun Sisters emanate an environmental ethic of regenerative agriculture and are wonderful teachers through their own learned experience of natural resource stewardship on their land. At the field site we will visit host plants for the Callippe silverspot and monarch butterfly. There are two options for the field trip - Saturday morning or Saturday  afternoon.

Presenters 

• Hillary Sardinas, Pollinator Coordinator, California Department of Fish and  Wildlife

• Joseph Terry, Senior Fish and Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife  Service

• Ryan Hill, Associate Professor, University of the  Pacific

• Samantha Marcum, Coastal Program Manager, U.S. Fish and Wildlife  Service

• Stu Weiss, Founder and Chief Scientist, Creekside  Science

• Hannah Ormshaw, Assistant Director, San Mateo County Parks  Department

• Clayton Koopmann, 5th generation Rancher, Koopmann Ranch and Rangeland Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission