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Preserve staff and volunteers spent a brisk fall day planting hundreds of native plant plugs around Four  spots around the Four Rivers campus earlier this month. “We accomplished so much on the Four Rivers campus.”    “When I’m down bent over digging, I’m seeing plants that were obviously planted last year from the same “We are infilling with some different species and kind of more of the same of the ones that are doing

Thanks to our partnership with Pembina Pipeline Corporation , The Nature Foundation is supporting the field trip transportation costs, said Jerome Gabriel, the facility supervisor at the Forest Preserve’s Four dozens of fields trips and in-school programs for students in kindergarten through 12 th  grade at four of its visitor centers Four Rivers Environmental Education Center in Channahon, Isle a la Cache Museum

Lincoln Land Association of Bird Banders, successfully banded 42 hummingbirds in a little less than three hours impressive hummingbird facts, the hows and whys of banding and a pitch for incorporating native plants in your would not have been possible without all the Forest Preserve volunteers who worked out in the heat for hours This special experience was a new way for our volunteers, donors and partners to get up close to our

You can do it in your backyard or even from your kitchen table, enjoying the birds that come and go from your yard, or you can turn it an adventure, trekking to bird hotspots near and far to see what species you can add to your list of observed birds. “People will sit in front of the windows and watch the bird feeders, sometimes for hours,” she said. The hope is the same at Hidden Oaks, where the bird-feeding station is part of the extensive renovations

For a group of local teachers, the answer to the age-old question “What did you do on your summer vacation will include spend time relaxing at Four Rivers Environmental Education Center in Channahon. The Teacher Appreciation program is also a way for teachers to learn more about what Four Rivers and “It’s a way to show our thanks.” Teacher Appreciation program is not the first time Oneok has supported projects and initiatives at Four

Finest: Fly-Fishing Tackle” at Monee Reservoir; and “Golden Opportunity: Botanical Illustration” at Four “The Nature Foundation funding allows us to do even more with our budget dollars,” Pond said, adding To end the year, Four Rivers hosted “Golden Opportunity: Botanical Illustration,” on loan from the Denver Later in the year, Isle a la Cache will host “Indige-Facts” and Four Rivers will host “Lost and Found creation of in-house exhibits, allowing visitor center staff to create high-quality exhibits related to our

Preserve staff to create a plan that incorporated short- and long-range goals and made possible a large-scale Romeoville. " Lost and Found – Remnants of Savannas and Old-Growth Forests " exhibit, which opens Oct. 15 at Four Nature restoration at Four Rivers Environmental Education Center, provided by Pembina.

initiatives for the District, including $11,500 to purchase prizes and incentives for the Route 66  Get Your And a $5,000 donation from Pembina Pipeline will be used for invasive species management at Four Rivers

equipment recently acquired by the Forest Preserve District aims to help bridge that divide and bring our The tractor is the same John Deere model as one owned by his father — and, in fact, is just a few serial “During the course of conducting many of those field tours the past few years, it became clearly obvious “You get a closer look at all the moving parts, the scale of the size of equipment and get a chance to our services to visitors,” she said.  

“For the past four years, we’ve received support from the Sgt. Thomas M. Gilbert Memorial Foundation to help scale up youth programs and activities at the Forest Preserve District From an early age, Tommy loved being outside, exploring nature, and he wanted all children to have the same appreciation and education of the outdoors and to encourage kids to be active in nature—aligns with our Our support enabled Hidden Oaks staff to purchase the tools and materials needed to begin offering field

see and feel the colors and textures, said Krukowski, adding that kids often get a kick out of one of our This is just another (safe) example of how The Nature Foundation supports the Forest Preserve District

“A repair station keeps cyclists safe on the trails and roadways by giving them a chance to repair bikes