10/02/2025
William Bartram Artist, Explorer, and Naturalist
It is our privilege to invite you to join the 250th Anniversary celebration of American naturalist William Bartram, his visit to the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain, and his journey in Louisiana to visit the Mississippi River. It is the intention of this conference program to honor William Bartram’s visit with a Bartram Conference Trail Historical Marker dedication. In addition, the celebration program shall include presentations describing the pre-Columbian landscape, its people, their relationship with nature and Bartram’s observations as an artist, Naturalist and accurate chronicler of the diverse indigenous plant and human communities of 1775 Southeastern United States.
Saturday October 25, 2025, Pelican Park Castine Center, Hall A
7:30 – 8:15AM Registration and Exhibitor Set-up
8:30 AM: Welcome and Introductions.
9:00 AM -9:45AM Before Europeans Arrived: Dr. Tammy Greer, University of Southern Mississippi
10:00 – 11:30 AM William Bartram Arrives in Southeastern Louisiana and Explores the Mississippi River
Charles Fryling, LSU School of Landscape Architecture
11:30- 12:30 LUNCH in the Exhibition Hall - Lunch will be provided with registration
12:30-1:15 Rewilding in Indigenous Communities: Dr. Tammy Greer, University of Southern Mississippi
1:15-2:00 The Disappearance of the Longleaf Pine Range: Latimore Smith, The Longleaf Alliance
2:15-4:00 Exhibitor Round Robin and Q&A
4:30 PM William Bartram Trail Historical Marker Dedication