Updates on efforts in River Forest, Illinois, to certify our community as a National Wildlife Federation 'Community Wildlife Habitat.' We intend to document our own progress towards this goal, while also gathering inspiring and useful information on ecological gardening, habitat gardening, prairie restoration, and large-scale ecological mangement of habitat characteristic of northeastern Illinois, the Great Lakes, prairie-oak savanna, and tallgrass prairie that once covered the landscape.
Have you seen the Sandhills yet this spring? Or more likely, have you heard them and their tell-tale tremolo? Few animals signal the change of seasons more decisively than these graceful birds. One day I counted 260 in four different flocks heading northwest over River Forest. They were probably moving up from the wildlife preserves…
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The Wildlife Habitat Project