Spring wildflower season is a special time of year. For a short window from about mid-April to mid-May, native wildflowers bloom across the woodlands and delight our local nature lovers.
When you clean up leaves, you clean out habitat for overwintering bees, butterflies, and many other critters. On the flipside, leaving leaves in place will give them the shelter they
Winter in Illinois means snow and usually a lot of it. Good for recreation if you like skiing, snowshoeing, making snowmen, and throwing the occasional snowball. Not so good for
“Community” is a powerful word. Community members help each other, have each other’s backs, and help strengthen our lives through cooperation and love. We use this word a lot around here to
We’re so pleased to announce our 2023 Conservation Award winners!!! All of these individuals and organizations are doing extraordinary conservation work in our communities and it is our pleasure to
The use of ‘innovation’ and ‘technical transformation’ to deal with climate change has recently gotten a lot of mindshare. These solutions are physical, using something like hydro-panels. They are also
Farming is one of the oldest and arguably most important human pursuits. People have come a long way over the millennia in how we farm and grow crops with the
Welcome to “Babbling Brook”, a blog series featuring our fearless leader Brook McDonald as he rambles around northeastern Illinois! I bet you hiked and spent more time outside in 2020.
Walking through donor and Conservation@Home certified member Robin LaBancz’s Bartlett oasis of a yard on a coolish day this summer, I felt my mood and energy level lift with every
In an age of climate change, urbanization, increasingly frequent and intense storms and prolonged drought, how can we plan and design stormwater best management practices for the future? This is
Invasive plants are a major threat to the health and diversity of Illinois’ native wildlife. Introduced from faraway lands and lacking natural predators, non-native species have spread into woodlands, prairies,
Land and water preservation or enhancement? Two ways to get to the same goal? Or are they irreconcilably different? In this blog, we discuss geoengineering and conservation. Geoengineering: What, Why,
Medical research from around the world has documented the health benefits of getting out in nature. Over the years, The Conservation Foundation (TCF) has promoted using parks, forest preserves, and
Actually, wildlife corridors benefit more than just birds and bees. There is a wealth of information about wildlife corridors for butterflies, predators, and other species in a variety of climates
So, one day I asked myself what more I can do for conservation, especially as a suburbanite who doesn’t have a few thousand acres to donate. Well, here are
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