12/14 Brush Cutting & End of Year BGI Celebration at Hickory Grove Highlands, Cary

We invite you to a Wandering Workday being co-hosted by BGI collaborative partners and McHenry County Conservation District for the Barrington Greenway Initiative (BGI). Join in removing invasives, enjoying a nice bonfire, food, and sharing with new like-minded friends.

BGI’s goal is to collaborate across jurisdictional boundaries to create unbroken, linked habitat corridors, increased biodiversity, and strengthened ecosystems all the way from the Poplar Creek area to north of Port Barrington. BGI is a partnership between Citizens for Conservation, Lake and Cook Counties Forest Preserves, Audubon Great Lakes, Friends of the Forest Preserves and Bobolink Foundation accomplishing more by working together.

This will be BGI’s first workday in McHenry County.

Date:                     Saturday, December 14th

Time:                     9:30am-12pm

Location:             Hickory Grove Highlands,

500 Hickory Nut Grove Lane, Cary

Meet at the CFC Farmhouse to carpool. (459 W. Rt 22, Barrington – White Farmhouse across street from hospital) or meet at the address above.

Tools will be provided. Please dress for the weather.

For more information: [email protected] or 847-382-7283