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Nature Speaks is a part of our Education and Outreach programs and is a collaboration with our partner, the Prospect Heights Public Library.

The series will feature four speakers annually, one each season and is designed to bring important national and regional speakers to Prospect Heights to discuss important, informative and entertaining topics affecting our city, our state and our planet.

All programs take place at the Prospect Heights Public Library's AB meeting room and on Zoom. Talks start promptly at 7:00. Nature Speaks is free admission but registration is necessary. Please register using the link on the speakers page.

Zoomers, after registration, the library will send you a Zoom link to the event as it gets closer to the date.

New Date - February 13th, 2025 - 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Live from Scotland, Flo  Blackbourn, "Why Not Scotland? -  Lessons Learned on my Rewilding Journey"

In the summer of 2023 a young Scot, Flo Blackbourn, traveled to nature restoration projects in six European countries, including her home country of Scotland, meeting numerous experts involved in the protection and restoration of our land and seas, and learning how people, as well as the natural world, can benefit from rewilding. Through this experience she considered the things she learned, what worked, and why it seemed that other countries were progressing much faster than the Scotland which she knows and loves.

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