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Crowley Oaks Restoration Workday

Crowley Oaks Woods 18725 Crowley Rd., Harvard, IL

Join Larry for another restoration adventure at Crowley Oak Woods! Restoration has been occurring on this 80 acre tract since the winter of 2020 and we're making excellent progress clearing the brush from the highest quality areas of the preserve. We conducted our first prescribed burn here this spring and the ground layer has responded in a really positive way! We'll […]

How to Convert Lawn to Wildflower Meadow with Seed

Barrington Area Library 505 N. Northwest Hwy., Barrington, IL

Tired of maintaining large sections of lawn grass? Want to attract birds and butterflies? Learn how to convert areas of your lawn to a native wildflower meadow from seed in this program with Sarah Michehl, Community Ecologist with The Land Conservancy of McHenry County.

Free

The Dance of the Woodcock

Yonder Prairie 1100 S. Rose Farm Rd., Woodstock, IL

Spring is here! Join us to watch American Woodcocks performing their amazing courtship flights. The male woodcocks will make several preent calls and then launch themselves into the sky. While they are flying up, you can hear the wind whistling through their outer primary feathers. They descend in a zigzag pattern while making a chirping sound and […]

Vernal Pool Hike

Harvard, IL Harvard, IL

Vernal pools are a little known but extremely important feature that occurs in our McHenry County oak woods. Come learn why these pools are essential for amphibians and other creatures like fairy shrimp! Dress to get muddy and dirty. Signs will be posted for parking.

$5

Yonder Prairie Restoration Workday

Yonder Prairie 1100 S. Rose Farm Rd., Woodstock, IL

Come on out for this TLC restoration workday at the lovely Yonder Prairie! We'll continue working in the back area of the property in the wooded corner to continue removing mulberry and invasive maple trees. Don't miss this opportunity to see Yonder while the bees are buzzing and flowers are blooming! Let's meet up in the parking lot where David and I will be waiting […]

The Dance of the Woodcock

Yonder Prairie 1100 S. Rose Farm Rd., Woodstock, IL

Spring is here! Join us to watch American Woodcocks performing their amazing courtship flights. The male woodcocks will make several preent calls and then launch themselves into the sky. While they are flying up, you can hear the wind whistling through their outer primary feathers. They descend in a zigzag pattern while making a chirping sound and […]

Crowley Oaks Restoration Workday

Crowley Oaks Woods 18725 Crowley Rd., Harvard, IL

Join Larry for another restoration adventure at Crowley Oak Woods! Restoration has been occurring on this 80 acre tract since the winter of 2020 and we're making excellent progress clearing the brush from the highest quality areas of the preserve. We conducted our first prescribed burn here this spring and the ground layer has responded in a really positive way! We'll […]

Crowley Oaks Restoration Workday

Crowley Oaks Woods 18725 Crowley Rd., Harvard, IL

Join Larry for another restoration adventure at Crowley Oak Woods! Restoration has been occurring on this 80 acre tract since the winter of 2020 and we're making excellent progress clearing the brush from the highest quality areas of the preserve. We conducted our first prescribed burn here this spring and the ground layer has responded in a really positive way! We'll […]

The Dance of the Woodcock

Boloria Meadows 410 S. Ridge Rd., Bull Valley, IL, United States

Spring is here! Join us to watch American Woodcocks performing their amazing courtship flights. The male woodcocks will make several preent calls and then launch themselves into the sky. While they are flying up, you can hear the wind whistling through their outer primary feathers. They descend in a zigzag pattern while making a chirping sound and […]

Final Friday Restoration Workday

Thousand Oaks 9423 Bellaire Ln., Spring Grove, IL

Join Kim at Thousand Oaks for another Final Friday! This site is in need of some brush clearing since shade-loving trees like cherry, and invasive species like buckthorn and honeysuckle have filled in over the years and are crowding out other important native species. Nearest address: 9460 Bellaire Ln Spring Grove IL Pin: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HV6pDvJmQUkeqmk87

Saturday Garlic Mustard Pull at Ryders Woods

Join our Caroline, your Fearless Weeder, for a different kind of workday at one of Woodstock's beautiful natural areas! For this event we'll be going after an invasive that inhabits many of our woodlands and tends to outcompete our native spring ephemerals. Can you guess what it is?? Yep, GARLIC MUSTARD! Boo-hiss. The main task […]

The Dance of the Woodcock – Limited Mobility “Sit”

Hennen Conservation Area 4622 Dean St., Woodstock, IL, United States

Do you have mobility issues?  Can’t walk on uneven ground?  No worries, this year we are offering a “limited mobility” woodcock sit at Hennen Conservation Area in Woodstock.  If you are able to walk short distances on mowed trails, please leave these spaces for other people who are unable to. Thank you! Spring is here! […]