Tag: volunteer

Meet TLC Volunteer Mary Mariutto

Written on November 4, 2019.

The best ideas surface when friends meet new friends over coffee. In 2008, Rene Dankert invited me to meet Lisa Haderlein and Linda Balek for coffee and brainstorming to develop a fundraiser for TLC, and Art of the Land was...

Meet TLC Volunteer Carol Giammattei

Written on April 12, 2019.

How (and when) did you start volunteering for TLC? I read a newspaper article about an Oak Rescue being held at Yonder Prairie in Woodstock with The Land Conservancy of McHenry County. This was in January 2015.Why do you volunteer? I...

A Few Thoughts on Oaks and Climate Change

Written on October 7, 2012.

We worked with a group of 9 volunteers the other day to plant 120 oak trees. While taking a mid-morning donut break, folks were talking about whether or not we should be planting species other than native oaks because of climate...