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Spring 2024 Educational Series

In collaboration with the College of St. Scholastica Social Work Department, we invite students and community members to explore Benedictine perspectives of ecological themes as we contextualize ecological issues. These perspectives foster the Benedictine values of Respect, Community, Humility, Radical Empathy and the Love of Learning.

Location: CSS 1200 Kenwood Avenue, Duluth. Click here for parking and location of Science Center (no. 7 on map).

1. February 22, 2024
CSS Main Campus, Science Room 1106
6:00pm-7:00pm

Human/Wildlife Issues: Lead and Wildlife
Caring for nature and wildlife is integral to the Benedictine values. This Dignitas event, presented by Wildwoods Director of Animal Rehabilitation Valerie Slocum, will focus on the dangers of lead poisoning to our wildlife and action steps we can take to protect the health and wellbeing of our raptors, loons, and other waterfowl.

2. March 21, 2024
CSS Main Campus, Science Room 1106
6:00pm-7:30pm

Human/Wildlife Issues: Exploring Ecosystems Through StoryTelling
This Dignitas event will expand our understanding of our relationship with nature from a relational-cultural perspective as we explore, through curiosity and story telling, relationships between people, animals, plants, the elements… and our interconnectedness with Nature.

3. April 4, 2024
CSS Main Campus, Science Room 1106
6:00pm-7:00pm

Human/Wildlife Issues: Keeping Wildlife Wild
What do we do if we see an injured or orphaned animal? How can we (re)establish safe and sustainable ecosystems to help wildlife thrive? This Dignitas event, presented by Wildwoods Director of Animal Rehabilitation Valerie Slocum, will provide information on how we can co-exist with wildlife and help keep wildlife wild.

4. April 25, 2024
CSS Main Campus, Science Room 1106
6:00pm-7:00pm

Human/Wildlife Issues: Beavers – Natures Eco-Engineers
On the shores of our beautiful northern Minnesota lakes, we live in community with beavers, otters, turtles, fishes, birds, and many other wildlife. To know and understand that we, as people, are not separate from nature affects how we interact with our environment. The beaver’s gentle nature and diligent, task oriented care-taking offer many learnings about the interconnectedness of life and the unquestionable importance of all our relations.

Previously Recorded Programs

Keeping Wildlife Wild

Ma’iingan (Wolf) Population Monitoring 04.27.2022