Ecologist Kyle Bradford Explains How Bees Hold Ecosystems Together in West Stockbridge
The Hawthorne Valley researcher and nature photographer speaks at the Old Town Hall, part of the Berkshire Nature Talk Series.
Friday, November 13, 7–8:30pm | West Stockbridge, MA
Kyle Bradford of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program speaks about bees on Friday at the West Stockbridge Historical Society’s Old Town Hall. The talk covers how bees hold ecosystems and food systems together, and what puts that work at risk. It is part of the society’s Berkshire Nature Talk Series, which author Scott Edward Anderson hosts.
Bradford has spent more than a decade in the field, from ant surveys in Columbia County to insect pest detection in California vineyards to graduate research on ants in the pine barrens of western Massachusetts. He treats bees as one thread in a larger web of human-managed land, landscape history, and current conservation choices. He is also a nature photographer, so the talk draws on his own images. Bradford holds a master’s degree in conservation biology from Antioch University New England and a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from the University of Vermont. He started in insect ecology as an intern in the Farmscape Ecology Program in 2012.
The talk is free for West Stockbridge Historical Society members, and non-members are asked for a $10 donation. Proceeds from the society’s ticketed events go toward restoring the Old Town Hall.
West Stockbridge Historical Society, Old Town Hall, 9 Main Street, West Stockbridge, MA. Reservations at weststockbridgehistory.org or 413-232-5055.
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