by Amelia Swiecki Week 8 of CLIP was packed full of invasive work, collecting mushrooms, and working with some great people out in the field!  We kicked off Monday with Melissa Grycan, the Natural Heritage Biologist from the...

by Isaac Servin This week was great; we got to get some work done obviously, but there were also some really fun activities and we met a couple new faces.  On Monday (July 11) the day started kind of cloudy but not too gloomy,...

by Kristi Robinson, CLIP lead intern After the day off on Monday, July 4, we kicked off our 6th week of CLIP on Tuesday with a morning of parsnip pulling at Irish Oaks. Though it was hot and humid, we managed to battle quite...

by Breanna Christensen Monday morning of CLIP’s week 5 was spent with Bruce Kessler, McHenry County restoration expert, at the Tauck Conservation Easement. There we split up into two teams to do Plants of Concern monitoring....

by Gretchen Casper On Monday we went to Glacial Park Conservation Area, and met with Sarah Michehl, TLC’s community engagement specialist. She talked to us about preparing and teaching environmental science to people...

by Amelia Swiecki To kick off Week 3 of CLIP, we all headed out to Bluestem Ecological Services, a native plant landscaping company in Marengo. We began our visit with a brief lunch and an introduction to Bluestem’s mission...