This woodland is a TLC conservation easement that shares a border with a site belonging to our friends at McHenry County Conservation District. We've been doing prescribed fires here since 2012 and working to remove invasive brush since 2014 ,but there is much work to be done. We'll be focusing on the fence row removing […]
Underneath all of the brush at Crowley oaks is a woodland worth saving! Aside from the beautiful old oaks and hickories there are subdued but ever present pockets of native plants persisting in the understory. Please join us as we continue to clear away invasive brush from around the flourishing sedge meadow at the heart […]
Please join TLC in celebrating the life of the late Al Van Maren with a special restoration workday this weekend! Al was an integral part of the restoration community and, in partnership with the Conservation District, helped preserve a continuous 93-acre stretch of oak woods - Community Research Forest. Folks who knew and worked with […]
Would you like to get outside, meet new people and do something great for our local environment? Here's how you can help: Volunteers assist with cutting, stacking and burning invasive brush to allow native trees and plants to grow! Please bring a mask and a pair of work gloves if you have them and wear […]
This is one of a series of fall workdays at Boloria Meadows. Volunteers are needed to work in the recently acquired oak woods at the south end of Boloria Meadows. This area has lots of old white oaks and young hickories waiting to be rescued. As usual, we'll have several burning brush piles going. Please […]
