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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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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