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Join us for the 2024 lecture series, Urban Wildlife: Exploring Our City's Wild Side, featuring talks on mammals, reptiles, birds, and fish found in Portland’s urban environment. The garden opens at 6pm for an after-hours stroll, appetizers, and beverages, with a captivating lecture beginning at 7pm. July 24
Wildlife In Our Backyard: The value of urban habitats big and small
Leslie Bliss-Ketchum, Wildlife Ecologist
Have you seen coyotes in your neighborhood? Maybe even a fox? A surprising number of wildlife species make their home in our urban area. Learn more about them and about local efforts to preserve and enhance habitat connectivity in the metro region. Find out about an exciting international project with local connections that is designed to help us better understand the patterns and predictability (or lack thereof) of urban wildlife.
Leslie Bliss-Ketchum is the owner and director of Samara Group LLC. She completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Portland State University and is an adjunct faculty member at Portland State University, teaching courses in field methods in wildlife science and urban ecology. Leslie is a Past-President of the Oregon Chapter of The Wildlife Society, and is currently serving as a board member for the Urban Wildlife Working Group. As a wildlife ecologist with over 16 years’ experience, Leslie has been actively monitoring the impacts of the built environment on habitat connectivity for wildlife, supporting feasibility studies and conceptual design projects aimed at building wildlife crossing structures, developing connectivity assessments, and supporting connectivity modeling efforts at a variety of scales.
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Leach Botanical Garden, 6704 SE 122nd Ave, Portland, OR 97236-5037, United States,Portland, Oregon, Happy Valley
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