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Wednesday (6/29) - Ela Prairie - 9AM - 11AM Lots more of the rarer prairie seeds are ripening. This remnant prairie has been the seed source for many of our restorations and continues to provide for our later stage seeding of blue eyed grass, prairie violet, and hoary puccoon. Come on out if you want to learn more about the ...
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Thursday (6/30) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM Last Thursday, our small army put in 3,300 Swamp Milkweed in a single day, that's gotta be a new record for us! We will continue to plant rarer milkweed through our NFWF grant. This week, we are going for quality over quantity as we look to install 500 Poke Milkweed ...
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Saturday (7/2) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM Well no one was expecting the amount of rain we got last Saturday morning! We still made the best of the day and got some seeds planted and cleaned. This Saturday, we will head on out to finish what we planned to do last week...plant more sedges! Meet at: CFC ...
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Wednesday (7/6) - Grassy Lake - 9AM - 11AM Many varieties of the woodland sedges are all ready for harvest. We will hike through the woods making a goody bag of all these important woodland seeds. Grassy Lake meet at: Eastern Trailhead off Miller Road (https://goo.gl/maps/eAN1C3fasvKpPzd97)
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Thursday (7/7) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM We officially planted all of the wetland sedges as part of our floodplain restoration, woohoo! We still have some more flats that Luke grew that we will install in some of the older plantings on the other side of the creek and use all the rain in the forecast to ...
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Saturday (7/9) - Spring Creek Prairie - 9AM - 11AM Our efforts to eradicate sweet clover are paying off tremendously down in the Spring Creek Valley. This pesky plant is still popping it's head up though so we will knock out these stragglers while enjoying all the new prairie species starting to pop up! Meet at: Merimar Farm, 152 W. Dundee ...
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Sunday (7/10) - Spring Creek Prairie - 9AM - 11AM We will continue the hunt for sweet clover that we didn't get to the day before. There are some fresh blueberries available to sweeten the pot! Meet at: Merimar Farm, 152 W. Dundee Rd. Barrington, IL 60010 (https://goo.gl/maps/EBAjLkMMYTooq2ER9)
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Wednesday (7/13) - Grassy Lake - 9AM - 11AM We will kick the week off with planting a rarer savanna milkweed called Poke Milkweed in areas we cleared of brush at Grassy Lake a few years ago. We will meet off the WESTERN trailhead. Look for the CFC truck! Meet at: Western Trailhead off Miller Road (https://goo.gl/maps/eAN1C3fasvKpPzd97)
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Thursday (7/14) - Grassy Lake - 9AM - 11AM We are summoning our small army again and will have the Youth Conservation Corps out to help us plant around 2,000 Sullivan's Milkweed. This is a super cool milkweed species that has been missing from many of our restorations in the area. That won't be the case anymore! Meet at: Grassy Lake - ...
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Saturday (7/16) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM The first major seed collecting effort starts today! Spiderwort is dropping seed so we will go around collecting seed and spreading some of our early season prairie mix across Flint Creek Savanna. Meet at: 459 W. HWY 22 (across the street from Good Shepard Hospital) (https://goo.gl/maps/kYaVNu1kRQhc4qTD90
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Wednesday (7/27) - Grassy Lake - 9AM - 11AM We've got a hodge podge of tasks to accomplish. The interns harvested some Cow Parsnip seed that we will spread in the woods, collect some more wetland seed, and plant some wetland sedges grown up at the Nursery. Meet at: Eastern Trailhead off Miller Road (https://goo.gl/maps/eAN1C3fasvKpPzd97)
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Thursday (7/28) - Craftsbury - 9AM - 11AM Good news, bad news. Good news is that we were able to spread some Purple Loosestrife Beetles out in the Craftsbury Marsh this year, woohoo!! Bad news is, it will take time for them to spread and the loosestrife is blooming like crazy. We will head out to cut the flower heads ...
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Saturday (7/30) - Vanderpoel Memorial Pond - 9AM - 11AM Let's bring that same sedge planting energy and help us put in a whole variety of wetland species at this young restoration! We've got plenty of flats that need a home before seed season gets rolling! Meet at: Vanderpoel Memorial Pond (https://goo.gl/maps/1bDe4ZMFBc1ozpuw9)
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Sunday (7/31) - Spring Creek Galloping Hill - 9AM - 11AM The last few stragglers of white sweet clover are just begging to be pulled! Should be another gorgeous day to walk through the prairie looking for this sweet smelling offender. Meet at: Penny Road Pond (https://goo.gl/maps/vBpjVe1ozJBQHpK77)
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Wednesday (8/3) - Grassy Lake - 9AM - 11AM Believe it or not but the bottlebrush seed is already starting to ripen. We will collect this matrix savanna species and also hunt down some Mayapples, not to eat but to propagate! Meet at: Western Trailhead off Miller Road (https://goo.gl/maps/EUJncDUMCLtSScfj9)
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Thursday (8/4) - Craftsbury - 9AM - 11AM You all are a lot more efficient and fun to hang around than purple loosetrife beetles! We made a tremendous push at eliminating this scourge from the marsh at Craftsbury. With the cooler temps predicted for the day, we will try to knock out the last strongholds of this pretty, but evil ...
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Saturday (8/6) - Vanderpoel Memorial Pond - 9AM - 11AM We got a lot of bulrush and sedges in the ground last week but have plenty more flats to go! Swamp Milkweed and Cardinal Flower that were planted last year are blooming and looking happy. Let's give them some company! Meet at: Vanderpoel Memorial Pond (https://goo.gl/maps/1bDe4ZMFBc1ozpuw9)
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