On New Year’s Eve, TLC hosted another successful McHenry County oak rescue! Thanks to the wonderful crew who worked at Irish Oaks Nature Preserve to free two oak trees from the brush that was surrounding them. Aaron...

The CLIP Class of ’22 put their knowledge and skills to work by putting together a research report on germination rates of Rudbeckia triloba after garlon chemical treatment. You can read the report here.

(Casper) Monday:  Since it was raining today, we read and discussed our last assignment. Then we worked on making a map of all the locations we have gone to, using GIS to calculate the areas on workdays. We did .85  acres of...

by Breanna Christensen To begin the week we spent Monday morning meeting on Zoom for a Conservation Career Panel. We met with multiple people CLIP Director Kim Elsenbroek knows, including Briana Whitaker, Natalie Christian,...

by Gretchen Casper On Monday, we had a work day around Hennen Conservation Area in Woodstock. We started by planting nine flats of plants donated from Red Buffalo Nursery, in the back behind the pond. The mosquitoes were on...

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...