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When you give to The Nature Foundation, your investment helps carry out the Forest Preserve District’ “Our partners’ support is really an investment in the Forest Preserve District,” she said. Our relationship with the Village of Romeoville started several years ago when the Village sponsored the Foundation’s native plant sales at visitor center at Isle a la Cache Preserve and Museum in Romeoville helps support their goals by facilitating collaboration and assisting with the Village’s native plant sales

 your new outdoor space. Need some guidance to get your started on your way to a yard all aflutter with activity?  with your plant selections. yard and your preferences. If you’re using plugs or young plants, plan to plant at the same time you would plant your vegetable

Looking to make some changes in your yard? If planting new plants is on your to-do list, consider including native plants in your landscaping. Our native plants here in Will County are well adapted to our climate and soil. More than half the water used outdoors is poured on our lawns and gardens to keep them green and lush On a global scale, these effects on air quality and air pollution can also contribute to preventing climate

Mammal Madness scheduled for March 2 and Pelican Party set for Sept. 28 at Four Rivers Environmental Funds are raised throughout the year via plant and merchandise sales.

That’s why protecting nature is so important – it helps keep our environment in balance to make sure our ecosystems function as they should.” Prescribed burns and volunteer supplies, supported through ComEd’s Dollars for Doers program A native plant sale Additional contributions funded bird feeding stations at Four Rivers Environmental Education Center in “Our well-being is inseparable from the health of our environment, which in turn shapes the quality and

Many of our food and drinks are dependent on the work of pollinators. How you can help  You can do your part to help the pollinator population thrive in our area by planting Native plants also attract pollinating birds and insects to your yard. Case studies  In our area, butterflies are plant-dependent. Trees  Many of our neighborhood trees are cultivated and not native to our area, Bryerton said.

) Good things come in small packages, and that’s certainly true in the natural world, where some of our tiniest creatures play a big role in our lives as pollinators, shaping the world all around us.   Understanding how crucial these creatures are for our own survival is particularly important because loss, pesticide use, and climate change, and turning the tide on these losses will require a large-scale In addition, an on-site native plant sale, hosted with help from with the Nature Foundation and Nicor

Knoblock) Jennifer Gabrenya likes to say the forest preserves saved her during a difficult period in From there, she became involved in the Foundation’s native plant sales. “Our mission is very squarely to support the programs of the Forest Preserve District, so I’m always

gifts from individual donors and corporate partners as well as revenue from Forest Preserve merchandise sales “Some of them have been part of our community since our first year of operation in 2014. “Their support furthers our mission,” she said. They make our visitor centers more dynamic.” The same is true of the bird-feeding stations. We may also remember that we benefit from the very same improvements that create a healthy habitat for

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