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Sunday (5/29) - Spring Creek - 9AM -11AM Garlic Mustard is starting to go to seed and each pod can have hundreds of seeds per pod. Frankly, we cannot let those seeds hit the ground in our restorations! We will be back out hunting down this pest while enjoying the wildflowers. Meet at: Penny Road Pond Parking Lot (https://goo.gl/maps/19ZCw2LfGsSRbae96) As ...
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Wednesday (6/1) - Grassy Lake - 9AM - 11AM The Garlic Mustard here has more or less been vanquished for the year! That being said, there is seed to start collecting and spreading to fill in the gaps where we pulled Garlic Mustard. We will focus on collecting more Spring Beauty. Grassy Lake meet at: Eastern Trailhead off Miller Road ...
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Thursday (6/2) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM We will split up again as we continue to propagate and plant! A group of us will continue to pot up little seedlings started in the greenhouse while the rest of us will continue planting out floodplain restoration project. Should be a great day for both! Meet at: CFC Headquarters ...
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Friday (6/3) - 9:30AM - 11:30AM Other workday needs Sarah and the Heron Creek crew are being overwhelmed by Garlic Mustard as well. They can use a few extra hands at their upcoming workdays if you are itching to check out a new site! Here's the info: For both workdays, Meet in the first parking lot by Shelter A. Long sleeves and ...
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Saturday (6/4) - Spring Creek - 9AM - 11AM A tremendous effort has been made to tackle the Garlic Mustard at Spring Creek this Spring. Let's call in the reinforcements to make the final push to clear out some of the best savanna plantings! Meet at: Healy Road *Please contact me if this is your first time as it can ...
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Bird Walk – Horizon Farm
Bird Walk – Horizon Farm
June 6, 7:00 am. Horizon Farm--Cook County’s newest Forest Preserve. This location offers easy walking on a paved road.
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Monday (6/6) - 9AM - 11AM Other workday needs Sarah and the Heron Creek crew are being overwhelmed by Garlic Mustard as well. They can use a few extra hands at their upcoming workdays if you are itching to check out a new site! Here's the info: For both workdays, Meet in the first parking lot by Shelter A. Long sleeves and ...
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Thursday (6/9) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM Seed collecting starts here at FCS! We will hunt around the preserves for Wood Betony that is ripening. We will also offer more plant propagation for our inspiring propagators! Meet at: CFC Headquarters 459 IL-HWY 22 (https://goo.gl/maps/qmSghmGkVM7yEnb5A) As always, don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions or need ...
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Saturday (6/11) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM We will start collecting the bad seed....Reed Canary Grass. To keep this pest from taking over wetlands we couldn't get to this year, we will chop the flowers off the plants to keep these from going to seed. Meet at: CFC Headquarters 459 IL-HWY 22 (https://goo.gl/maps/qmSghmGkVM7yEnb5A) As always, don't hesitate ...
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Sunday (6/12) - Spring Creek: The 160 - 9AM - 11AM Garlic Mustard is done! From the woodlands to the prairies as we start to tackle the sweet clover starting to show up. Meet at: Route 72 entrance - look for volunteer sign (https://goo.gl/maps/yZroAsvs9UAB9Xa6A) As always, don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions or need directions!
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Junior Naturalist Camp I
Junior Naturalist Camp I
Ages 5-7 | Limit of 12 campers Week of June 13, 2022 | 5 days 9:30-12:00 | Monday to Friday Location: CFC | 459 W. Hwy 22, Barrington | Across from Good Shepherd Hospital Cost: $100 a week for members and $150 for non-members (per week, per child). Children bring their own snacks Register Here for Junior Naturalist Camp I
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Wednesday (6/15) - Ela Prairie - 9AM - 11AM We will be taking a break from Grassy Lake to head over to Ela Prairie to harvest from some large Wood Betony populations. It'll be another hot one so bring plenty of water and plan to cut the workday short once it warms up. Meet at: Northern Pull-off East of Ela Road (https://goo.gl/maps/G4uB1f1fGrWvhDna6)
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Thursday (6/16) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM A tremendous group got rid of thousands and thousands of future RCG seeds last Saturday! We will have one more day before these flowers start to turn to seeds so let's get out to knock out this evil pest! Bring wet boots if you have a pair. Meet at: CFC Headquarters 459 ...
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Saturday (6/18) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM We will take the opportunity with the "cooler" weather this Saturday to get more plants out on the floodplain! We are coming down the home stretch here with our big floodplain project, it will be great to have all these sedges in the ground! Meet at: CFC Headquarters 459 IL-HWY 22 (https://goo.gl/maps/qmSghmGkVM7yEnb5A)
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Sunday (6/19) - Spring Creek: Galloping Hill - 9AM - 11AM We will be on the prowl for Yellow Sweet Clover while also taking in all the successful prairie plantings! There may even be some ripe Porcupine Grass seed ready for harvest too. Come join a pleasant hike through the prairie! Meet at: Penny Road Pond (https://goo.gl/maps/NSoFA9EueHczrv4PA)
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Junior Naturalist Camp II
Junior Naturalist Camp II
Ages 8-10 | Limit of 12 campers Week of June 20, 2022 | 5 days 9:30-12:00 | Monday to Friday Location: CFC | 459 W. Hwy 22, Barrington | Across from Good Shepherd Hospital Cost: $100 a week for members and $150 for non-members (per week, per child). Children bring their own snacks Register Here for Junior Naturalist Camp II
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Wednesday (6/22) - Grassy Lake - 9AM - 11AM We will continue the seed collecting effort as the wetland sedges start to go to seed. There's also a new invader (ugh, it's always something!) called Garden Valerian sneaking into the wetlands. We will also try to knock out this small population before it gains a foothold. Grassy Lake meet at: ...
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Thursday (6/23) - Grassy Lake Floodplain - 9AM - 11AM Our BGI partnership is excited to announce we were awarded a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to get more milkweed plants out on the landscape! This will allow us to plant many "seed gardens" embedded into restorations. 65,000 pollinator species will be grown and planted in the ...
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Saturday (6/25) - Flint Creek Savanna - 9AM - 11AM Lots of great prairie and wetland species grown by the high school were planted last week on the Floodplain! We will plan on getting the rest of our sedges planted out there this Saturday officially completing the first phase of this project!! Meet at: CFC Headquarters 459 IL-HWY 22 (https://goo.gl/maps/qmSghmGkVM7yEnb5A)
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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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