Program
Indoor Programs
May Program
Annual Picnic!
Thursday, May 21, 2026
6:00 PM – 9:30 pm
St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Park (Brown’s Lake)
Organizers: Marten Stoffel, Josh Erikson and Kerry Hjertaas
Bring your own food. Use of fireplace is not guaranteed.
Register by texting to 306-230-9291. Check SNS website before you come in case of any more information.
Meet at the grain elevator in the Western Development Museum parking lot off Lorne Avenue.
Monthly Meetings and Speaker Programme
Listen, learn, and share ideas with people who are passionate about our natural world!
SNS offers a monthly speaker programme from September to April on the third Thursday of the month. All meetings are live streamed through Zoom.
During the fall and spring months presentations will be in hybrid format: speakers will present live at in-person meetings while being simultaneously streamed through Zoom. During winter months speakers may be streamed from outside the Saskatoon region and on these occasions, there will be no in-person meeting.
All are welcome to attend these meetings either in-person or through Zoom. Look for details about each month’s meeting in the SNS membership newsletter, confirming any in-person meeting time and place. A reminder email with the meeting details and Zoom link will be sent to each member whose current email address is on file.
Non-members who wish to attend through Zoom should provide their name and email address to Claire Bullaro at c.bear@sasktel.netfor each meeting. Please consider becoming a member of the Saskatoon Nature Society if you wish to receive the Zoom link automatically each month.
In person meetings are held on the University of Saskatchewan Campus and are thus subject to the university’s rules regarding COVID restrictions. At present, masks and social distancing are encouraged but not required. We will not be providing shared refreshments, so please bring your own drinks and snacks.
The monthly meetings include announcements from the SNS president. If you have an announcement or notice, please contact the president at least 2 days before the meeting.
Previous Presentations
Miss a talk?
Want to:
Review previous presentations?
Learn more about our natural world?
Check out below.
If a speaker gives us a copy of a presentation we will have a link set up below.
Understanding the physiology of migratory
bird flight at high altitudes
With Dr. Catherine Ivy
7:30 PM, Thursday April 16, 2026
Relocating the Overwintering Sites of Monarch Butterflies Threatened by Climate Change by Moving Oyamel Sacred Fir Forests to Higher Elevations
Dr. Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero Institute for Research on Natural Resources, Michoacan University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
7:30 PM Thursday February 19, 2026
Habitat Restoration in the Canadian Prairies:
When and Where Does it Work, and Why Do
We Need to Keep Habitat Intact?
Dr. Lauren Bortolotti
Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research
Ducks Unlimited, Manitoba
7:30 PM Thursday, December 11
Honey Bees vs. Wild Bees:
Friends, Foes, or Frenemies?
Dr. Sarah Wood
Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of
Saskatchewan
and Emilio Prieto MSc
7:30 PM Thursday, November 20
“Through the Seasons at Olson Place"
Dale Hjertaas and Paule Hjertaas
7:30 PM Thursday, October 16, 2025
“What's smell got to do with it?"
Dr. Leanne Grieves
Mary and Stuart Houston Chair in Ornithology
An introduction to Avian Chemical Communication.
7:30 PM Thursday, September 18, 2025
“Nurturing Seeds of Change"
Renny W. Grilz
7:30 PM Thursday, Thursday April 17, 2025
“Wildlife, Landscapes, & Geology"
Dr. Dale Leckie
7:30 PM Thursday, Thursday Feb. 20, 2025
Nature Saskatchewan: A History and Update
With Ellen Bouvier, BSc.
7:30 PM Thursday, January 16, 2025
Eat Pray Love
The secret lives of spiders.
With Catherine Scott
7:30 PM Thursday, December 12, 2024
The Future of Conservation on the Prairies
Dr. Branimir Gjetvaj,
Prairie Food System Vision Networks
7:30 PM Thursday, November 21, 2024
Saskatchewan Muskegs: What Are They and
Why Do They Need Our Help?
Dorothy Bird, Saskatoon, Member of “For
Peat’s Sake”
7:30 PM Thursday, October 17, 2024
Monitoring and Science for Recovery of
Whooping Cranes
Mark Bidwell and John Conkin
7:30 PM Thursday, September19, 2024
Reflections on Peregrine/human Interactions Throughout History
With Lynn Oliphant
7:30 PM Thursday, April 18, 2024
Measuring Biodiversity by Harnessing the
Wind
with Elizabeth Clare
York University, Toronto
January 18, 20024
Magnificent Mōlī: Laysan Albatross
of Kaua’i
with Hob Osterlund
December 2023
Hunting Aurora Borealis
by Dale Boan
Saskatchewan Aurora Hunters
October 2023
The Beaver: A Geographic Journey
Dr. Glynnis Hood
February 2023
Dr. Fabien Mavrot University of Calgary
January 2023
Emerging Diseases in Wildlife
Trent Bolinger
October 2022
Tracking Migratory Birds:Where Do They Really Fly? - Ernesto Carman
September 2022
Wetland Drainage and its Impacts on Biodiversity in the Prairie and Parkland Region of Canada
Kiel Drake
February 2022
Woodland Caribou in Saskatchewan
Michael McLaughlan
R.P.F.Ministry of Environment & Fish, Wildlife & Lands