The EPN is very excited to team up with The Frank Museum of Art at Otterbein University on Tuesday, June 14th to host an indoor/outdoor field trip to experience various ways to showcase and restore nine native Ohio prairie grasses. Over many decades, prairie grasses were ploughed under and pushed aside through land use conversion in agriculture and infrastructural development, and increasingly through competition with nonnative species.

Join Jenny Adkins (Professional Wetland Scientist and Lead Botanist, MAD Scientist Associates), Dr. Terry Hermsen (Professor of English Emeritus, Otterbein University), Cadine Navarro (Harvard Graduate School of Design), Marci Lininger (Environmental Coordinator, Ohio Department of Transportation, and Director, Ohio Pollinator Habitat Initiative) and dozens of fellow regional environmental professionals, leading community groups, non-profits, businesses, educational institutions, and governmental entities working individually and collectively to create a more ecologically resilient region…planting seeds for native grasses and helping them grow! Keeping with our EPN Summer Field Trip traditions, this program will help you grow in your work, learn new skills, feel inspired and build your community and network.

Registration for this event is limited, so learn more and register today for If you listen carefully…It Sounds Like Love at go.osu.edu/epnjun22  

We hope you are finding ways to experience nature and the outdoors as we transition from spring into summer.  

Joe Campbell and Cecil Okotah