The Center and Museum will host a panel discussion titled “Our Grass Earth: Conserving the Great Plains” that will bring ecologists, photographers, and poets together at the Center for Great Plains Studies to discuss grassland conservation in the Great Plains.

Panel members:

- Photographer Sebastian Tsocanos and photographer/poet Robin Walter. The exhibition “From This Grass Earth,” on view until May 28, features images captured and poems penned while traveling on horseback through the Great Plains in northern Wyoming and central Montana.

- Photographer Kate Schneider. Schneider photographed the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline route in Nebraska during a three-year period. Her images paired with letters to President Obama about the pipeline appear in the exhibition “We, the Heartland,” on view April 1 – August 27.

- Prairie Plains Resource Institute Executive Director William Whitney. Whitney’s goal with PPRI is to restore parcels of land to native prairies and to make them accessible to the public for science, education, and recreation. More than 10,000 acres are now under protection through PPRI.

The panelists will discuss conservation issues facing our grasslands region and address how their work compares in purpose and scope. The panel discussion will be followed with a Q & A session.

The next poster in the Great Plains Ecotourism Coalition’s “See the Great Plains” series will be revealed during this event, which is free and open to the public.

This Grass Earth panel talk was funded in part by the UNL Faculty Senate Convocations Committee.