Summary: <p>Kim Hankins, director of the the McHenry County College <a href="http://www.mchenry.edu/green/">Sustainability Center</a> and Caron Wenzel, owner of <a href="http://blazing-star.com/m/">Blazing Star</a> native seed company, promote the annual <a href="http://www.mchenry.edu/greenexpo/">Green Living Expo</a>. <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/fieldmuseum.org/bruce-pattersons-lab/">Bruce Patterson</a>, the MacArthur Curator of Mammals in the Integrative Research Center at Chicago’s <a href="https://www.fieldmuseum.org/">Field Museum of Natural History</a> extols the virtues of bats during the National Park Service’s annual <a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/bats/bat-week-2016.htm">Bat Week. </a>Earlier this year, President Obama designated bison as the <a href="http://nationalmammal.org/">National Mammal of the United States</a>. To help celebrate <a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd522634.pdf">National Bison Day</a> on November 5, Mike and Peggy welcome Wade Spang, Prairie Supervisor, USDA Forest Service’s <a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/midewin">Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie</a>, Duane Lammers, movie consultant on the 1991 Academy Award-winning film Dances with Wolves, and Keith Aune, bison program director with the Wildlife Conservation Society.</p> <p></p> <p> </p>
