Learn about why grouse are critical for sustaining the "Grub Hubs" of nature and how to grow grub that benefits grouse, raptors, and people. Jennifer will introduce you to the interesting lives of grouse from Idaho (sage-grouse), Iceland (rock ptarmigan), and Norway (capercaillie). She will describe the unique role grouse play as both prey for hungry predators and as predators of clever plants. She will finish with a cautionary tale of the invisible famine that climate and human decisions could create for grouse and invite you to help grow the right grub for grouse.

About Jennifer Forbey: 

Jennifer Forbey holds a Ph.D. in Biology and has served as a faculty member at Boise State University since 2008 with previous positions in the pharmaceutical industry, at a predominantly undergraduate institution, and internationally. She integrates chemistry, physiology, animal behavior, ecology, and remote sensing to predict mechanisms and consequences of the chemical interactions between plants and vertebrate herbivores from the cells, to individual organisms, to landscapes. Her research employs a combination of laboratory and field-based approaches to understand, predict, and manage interacting plants and vertebrate herbivores in ways that benefit nature and people. She is dedicated to establishing creative partnerships and institutional processes that create opportunities for everyone, everywhere to participate in scientific discovery and translation of those discoveries into benefits for society.

This program is free and open to everyone.