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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%">Biodiversity and the Role of Disturbance in Managing Natural Ecosystems with Nate Weston<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">When:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"> Saturday, February 26, 2022, 10:00am (Central Time Zone)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;background:white"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84836721030">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84836721030</a></span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Program Description:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Nate Weston, Geospatial Ecologist with the Beaver Watershed Alliance, will discuss the role of disturbance and its effect on biodiversity, especially in the management of natural ecosystems. In ecological
terms, disturbances change the environment’s status quo. Whether natural or human-driven, disturbances positively or negatively affect ecosystems, their function, and how organisms interact therein. Understanding the role of disturbance in shaping natural
communities provide land managers valuable tools to assist nature in encouraging desirable outcomes like biodiversity while mitigating undesirable consequences like invasive species infestation or complete ecological collapse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Speaker Bio:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"> Nate is the Geospatial Ecologist for the Beaver Watershed Alliance, a water quality non-profit located in Elkins, AR promoting
voluntary best-management practices to landowners and municipalities in the 1,200-square-mile Beaver Watershed and Beaver Lake itself, drinking water source for roughly 500,000 Arkansans. Nate has worked in landscape and restoration ecology, natural resources
management, and environmental education for over ten years. As the Alliance’s Geospatial Ecologist, he works directly with public and private landowners to develop voluntary land management strategies addressing erosion, native plants, invasive species management,
habitat improvement, and overall watershed vitality. Nate enjoys cartography and the art of developing data-rich maps and models illustrating topics such as surface runoff and erosion and doing “walkabouts” with landowners looking to implement voluntary conservation
practices, and helping the Alliance promote a holistic approach to watershed management for landowners in the Beaver Lake Watershed. Nate is currently serving as the President of the Arkansas Native Plant Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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