John is a Teacher and Botanist who completed his B.Ed. and H.BSc. at Lakehead University. He volunteers for many environmental and art groups.

Graham lives in Guelph, Ontario and is passionate about the preservation of native landscapes and their recovery through ecological restoration and naturalization. His area of expertise is the identification of plants with a focus on tallgrass species. He has also participated in numerous tallgrass prairie restoration projects, particularly in Brant, Hamilton and Waterloo counties.

Ewa Bednarczuk is the Conservation Biology Coordinator for the Rice Lake Plains–Lake Iroquois Plain with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), based in Northumberland County. Her team steward some of Ontario’s rare tallgrass prairie, savanna, oak woodland, and sand barren habitats.

Keira is currently pursuing her master's at the University of Waterloo studying the seed bank in restored tallgrass prairies. She is also a member of the Ontario Ecological Restoration Conference organizing committee and the University of Waterloo Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration.

Melinda Thompson is an Ecologist and Botanist working for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.  Melinda has special expertise on rare habitats and plant Species at Risk (SAR) in Ontario and has authored several rare species status reports and recovery strategies. 

Freyja Whitten is the Terrestrial Restoration Program Manager at Credit Valley Conservation, managing grassland restoration, invasive species management, and habitat structure projects throughout the watershed. While she is now found behind a desk at work, she enjoys the outdoors: camping, gardening, and exploring new places.