View Calendar Details WORKSHOP Join Derek Ziomber, former Friends of the Forest Preserves Field Organizer, for a workshop on winter identification of trees and shrubs at Harms Woods, which has a rich collection of native shrubs and trees. Harms Woods (Glenview Woods) 2026-03-14 10:00 am RSVP Here. {Post Image:47}

View Calendar Details Annual Membership Meeting Join us to hear a presentation by Greg Spyreas of the Illinois Natural History Survey about the impact of climate change on Illinois native plants. We will also have a book swap, updates from the chapter board, and some time to socialize. Refreshments will be provided. Thatcher Woods Pavilion…
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View Calendar Details HIKE Join us for a hike at the North Dunes Nature Preserve to see a large and diverse area containing wetland, prairie, savanna and beach communities, with a chance to encounter a variety of rare lakeshore species. Then join Kathleen Garness and Gerould Wilhelm to learn about the history of Hosah Park……
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View Calendar Details FIELD TRIP Join Mark Kluge to visit one of the most remote areas in Cook County, where traffic noise is essentially inaudible. Enjoy the upland forest, prairie, and oak savanna communities set on a landscape of well-defined glacial features including hills, valleys, and the Visitation Esker. Cap Sauers Holding Nature Preserve 2025-09-07…
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View Calendar Details FIELD TRIP Wolf Road Prairie, an 82-acre Illinois Nature Preserve, is the largest remaining tallgrass prairie in the Chicago area. Home to rare grasses, wildflowers, wetlands, and savanna, it also shelters diverse wildlife. Saved from development by locals in the 1970s, it’s now a vital refuge. Wolf Road Prairie Nature Preserve 2025-08-03…
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Messenger Woods field trip for a Sunday stroll in nature.

Northeast Chapter: Home  |  Events  |  Resources |  Newsletters In 2022, the Northeast Chapter of the Illinois Native Plant Society is awarding six (6) twelve (12) copies of the book Flora of the Chicago Region to budding botanists, naturalists, habitat restoration volunteers, or students of ecology or conservation-related programs to encourage their personal and/or professional development. A primary…
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When my parents moved to Northbrook in 1951, the entire area between Crabtree Lane and Dundee Road was prairie and unchanneled west fork of the north branch of the Chicago River (except for a handful of houses on the north side of Crabtree Lane near Western Ave). Many natural prairie areas that had never been…
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Lakeside daisy’s (Tetraneuris herbacea) rocky road to recovery began in 1988 when it was listed as a federally threatened species. This designation was determined in part by the limited availability of suitable habitat, and the potential loss of that habitat as a result of stone quarrying operations in major parts of its range (namely Ohio).…
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Dune willow (Salix syrticola) is an Illinois Endangered species found at only a few lakeshore sites in northeastern IL. David Johannesen, a Plants of Concern volunteer, raised an alert in 2020 when he discovered plants were being lost to lakeshore erosion, and flooding had submerged half of the 10 remaining dune willows at Illinois Beach…
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