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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 […]

Garlic Mustard Weed Pull at Wolf Oak Woods

Wolf Oak Woods 9016 IL Route 120, Woodstock, IL

Come on out to join Pete for a Wolf Oak reunion and a worthy cause! Like last year, we'll be teaming up with students from Woodstock High School to hand pull garlic mustard that is popping up amongst the spring ephemerals that are blooming. This is an aggressive biennial plant which means it completes its life cycle […]

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 […]

Spring Sustainability Sale Pickup

McHenry County Soil and Water District 2222 Dean St., Woodstock, IL

Pick up your pre-ordered items, and we’ll also have extras for sale onsite! Onsite sales are first come, first served. Knowledgeable staff will be on hand to answer your plant questions.

Yonder Prairie Restoration Workday

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

Come on out for this TLC restoration workday at our gorgeous Yonder Prairie! This workday is hosted by two cool stewards, Carol Giammattei and Melissa Grycan. Thanks to their selfless devotion to the site, Yonder is looking more and more like the natural landscape it once was. Don't miss this opportunity to see Yonder in its wonderful wintry state! You’ll meet up in the parking lot […]

Spring Sustainability Sale Pickup

McHenry County Soil and Water District 2222 Dean St., Woodstock, IL

Pick up your pre-ordered items, and we’ll also have extras for sale onsite! Onsite sales are first come, first served. Knowledgeable staff will be on hand to answer your plant questions.

Go for a Nature Walk This Spring

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

Join TLC for a simple nature walk in May or June. It’s a great opportunity to get outside and enjoy some exercise and company on beautiful trails. Capacity is limited to 15 people per walk, so register early!

Tryon Grove Restoration Workday

Tryon Oaks Woods 6519 Oak Hill Dr., Richmond, IL

For this workday we’ll continue working on the southeast section of woods. There's still a lot of buckthorn, bittersweet, and honeysuckle in this area along with a new foe called porcelain berry. It's a vining invasive and has a destructive tendency to climb and slowly choke any vegetation it comes into contact with so it's important to stop it's […]

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 […]

Go for a Nature Walk This Spring

Barefoot Ridge 1304 Deerpass Rd., Marengo, il

Join TLC for a simple nature walk in May or June. It’s a great opportunity to get outside and enjoy some exercise and company on beautiful trails. Capacity is limited to 15 people per walk, so register early!

Final Friday Restoration Workday with Kim

Finch Farm 11006 Greenwood Rd., Woodstock, IL

Join Kim and 2 of this year's interns for some brush clearing at Finch Farm off of rt 120 in Woodstock! We'll be opening up the savanna and taking down lots of black cherry along with some honeysuckle/buckthorn. Directions: From Woodstock, head east on 120 for 2.4 miles. A house will be on your left (north), […]

Thompson Road Farm Restoration Workday

Thompson Road Farm 9505 Thompson Rd., Bull Valley, IL

We are very happy to announce that Bruce Killips is now an official TLC Steward and will be hosting bi-weekly workdays on Mondays at Thompson Road Farm! 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 […]