10:00–11:30am
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Strong City, KS

Join science journalist Kristin Hugo for a presentation and walk at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Strong City. Kristin will discuss a current body of work featuring bone-hunting, and will share tips for finding, cleaning and caring for animal bones harvested in the field as well as the legal and ethical factors of this work (i.e. it is illegal to harvest bones or any other organic matter from national parks without express permission!)

This event is free and will take place in the conference room by the Visitors Center of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Strong City, KS.

**Please note that Highway K-177 is closed for construction between Council Grove and the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Check detour routes and travel times.

Kristin Hugo is a science journalist focusing on biology, nature, animals, and bones. Her upcoming book, “Carcass: On the Afterlives of Animal Bodies,” is slated to be published by MIT Press. 

After earning a BA in Journalism from California State University, Northridge, and an MS in Science Journalism from Boston University, Kristin moved around the East and West Coasts of the US to pursue science writing positions at National Geographic, PBS Newshour, Newsweek, and Bay Nature Magazine. Now she lives in Kemmerer, Wyoming, where she focuses on various media projects, including a photo book about animal remains. 

Kristin has received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Book Grant and is an alum of the Poynter-Koch Media Fellowship, the Wyoming Innovation Partnership Creative Economy Workshop, the Wyoming Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Nonfiction, and the Jentel Artist Residency. You can see her writing, social media pages, and contact info at KristinHugo.com.