Get your New Year’s Eve off to a great start by helping out at an oak rescue in beautiful McHenry County, where we will work to rescue a mighty oak tree! What is an oak rescue? It’s an opportunity for people to work together to free an old oak tree from the brush that surrounds […]
Join Bruce Killips at Thompson Road Preserve for a day of woodland restoration! TLC partnered with Bull Valley to purchase and protect this property as a natural area. It's made up of mostly wet sedge meadow and woodland habitats that are in need of invasive management. The oak woods is roughly 35 acres and heavily infested with buckthorn, […]
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 […]
Join us for a restoration workday at one of Woodstock's beautiful natural areas! For this workday we'll continue to clear brush on the north side of the park. We'll focus on the invasive shrubs and trees that are obstructing the boundaries to allow more light to reach the plants in understory and provide an unobstructed […]
This workday meets on the second Saturday of every month. Dennis Drehr is our dedicated steward leading these workdays and has been helping to breathe life back into this incredible site since 2006. Just when we thought we were running out of brush to clear we recently added another 15 acres of beautiful oak woodland […]
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 […]
