2025 Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club Annual Dinner
Schedule
Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
12016 Talbot St, Maidstone, Ontario | Tecumseh, ON
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During our August Featured film viewing, you were introduced to the rescue of the Mottled Duskywing. Now, you can get a behind the scenes look at this heartwarming project as it continues its quest to save this endangered species.Jessica Linton - Senior Biologist and Project Manager at Natural Resource Solutions Inc, will be our speaker this year.
Jessica Linton is responsible for the oversight of the Species at Risk Sector, managing a wide range of projects that emcompass natural area inventories, scientific research, recovery planing and impact assessments. She is a member of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) Anthropod species Specialist Subcommittee and Chair of the Ontario Butterfly Species at Risk Recovery Team.
Jessica will provide an overview of the work the Ontario Butterfly Species at Risk Recovery Team has been doing since the filming of "Butterflies on the Brink: the story of the mottled duskywing". This will inlcude an update on the mottled duskywing reintroduction program at Pinery Provincial Park, a new reintroduction program in Norfolk County, and other projects and species the team is focusing efforts on, inlcuding the reintroductions of Frosted Elfin back to Canada after is extirpation in the late 1980s.
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12016 Talbot St, Maidstone, Ontario, 12021 Talbot Rd, Tecumseh, ON N0R, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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