Author: Lisa

Enter TLC’s 2025 Amateur Photography Contest

Written on October 10, 2024.

Art of the Land Amateur Photography Contest Enter today! The Land Conservancy of McHenry County (TLC) hosts this contest each year to highlight the inspiring natural landscapes found throughout McHenry County. Once...

Art of the Land Fundraiser Sept. 27 & 28

Written on September 26, 2024.

Art of the Land Fundraiser We can’t wait to see you at this year’s event! Bring your friends and enjoy inspiring artwork, hand-crafted artisan items, nature photography, live music, appetizers, raffle prizes and...

Job Openings

Written on January 9, 2023.

Job Openings Work with a great group of people who are passionate about the McHenry County landscape! Please follow the instructions in the job description to apply. Restoration Technician

Taking Care to be Anti-Racist

Written on June 11, 2020.

The same month that I was born, August 1963, was when Martin Luther King Jr gave his “I have a dream speech,” in which he said he dreamed of a day when his “four little children will one day live in a nation...

Let the Sun Shine In

Written on July 20, 2018.

If you drive along Illinois Route 120 between Woodstock and McHenry, you have surely seen the Wolf Oak Woods property. This is the site where “that oak” lives. You know, the large bur oak whose branches touch the ground! The...

Happy Valentine’s Day

Written on February 11, 2018.

What do you associate with Valentine’s Day? Hearts and flowers? A box of chocolates? Valentine’s Day cards? Birds? In the fifth century A.D., Pope Galesius established February 14 as the Feast of Saint Valentine...