Chapter Meeting and Program

Name: Chapter Meeting and Program
Start: 2026-01-15T17:45:00-06:00
End: 2026-01-15T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Springfield Conservation Nature Center

Schedule

Thu Jan 15 2026 at 05:45 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Springfield Conservation Nature Center | Springfield, MO

Our programs are free and open to the public. We meet on the third Thursday of each month, from September to November and January to May, at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center. The meetings run from 5:30 pm to 7:45 pm. Refreshments and socializing start at 5:30 pm. The program begins at 6:15 pm, followed by the membership meeting at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center, located at 4601 South Nature Center Way, Springfield, MO 65807.
Over the last 20+ years the population trends of bird species whose lifecycles are either completely dependent upon or at least seasonally dependent upon systems that require a lot of disturbance to restore and maintain are alarming. Our speaker will cover the importance of disturbance-dependent habitats, trends in disturbance-dependent bird species, landscape changes that are driving these trends, and what is being done to address the issue. The speaker will also touch on public perception of habitat management and how policy changes can influence conservation outcomes, both positively and negatively based upon these perceptions.
Jim Guldin is a retired research scientist in forest ecology and silviculture and lives with his wife Melissa in the Southern Hills neighborhood of Springfield. After degrees in forestry from Penn State, Yale, and Wisconsin-Madison, Jim served on the faculty of the School of Forestry at the University of Arkansas at Monticello from 1982 to 1992. Then he spent 28 years with the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service as a Research Forest Ecologist, Project Leader, and Center Director, working from a duty station in Hot Springs, Arkansas.