In 1935, Ruth Teuscher purchased 40 acres of land in the Town of Somers in northern Kenosha County. Inspired by a grove of native hawthorn trees gr...
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MissionPringle Nature Center is a regional resource where people of all ages can experience nature, environmental education, conservation and stewa...
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The Wildlife Discovery Center (WDC) is a living natural history museum and one of the region’s unique hidden gems. It is a place of learning ...
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Mellody Farm Nature Preserve:
In 1994, Lake Forest Open Lands partnered with a local developer to save 50 acres of a 76-acre site in the Middlefor...
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Oak-hickory forests, tall grass prairie, oak savanna and natural wetlands are an oasis for native plants and animals at this 97-acre preserve of th...
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Our Vision
The silence of a tranquil, snowy wood, punctuated only by the swish of gliding skis, the delighted squeal of school children imagining ...
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This 15 acre natural area sits on the east bank of the Des Plaines River. In 1998 the Village, with School District 103, established a Nature Cente...
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Come in and check us out! The Prairie Grass Nature Museum and Interpretive Nature Trail lets everyone explore and discover in a hands-on, interacti...
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Once designated to be a jet fighter base, Richard Bong State Recreation Area is fittingly named after Major Richard I. Bong, a Poplar, WI nati...
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Kent Fuller Air Station Prairie is a 32-acre remnant of a tall-grass prairie that once stretched for millions of square miles across North America....
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About Us:
Volo Bog was first documented by W.G. Waterman in 1921. It was originally named the Sayer Bog, after the land's owner, dairy farmer Geor...
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For 10,000 years, since the last glaciers melted away, the Des Plaines River Valley has been home and highway for plants, animals and people. Only ...
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With surrounding Lake County in a state of vast development, it was Kildeer’s intent to provide its residents with a refuge where people coul...
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The Grove is 143 acres of ecologically diverse prairie grove land preserved and maintained by the Glenview Park District. The Grove was the ho...
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About UsThe Evanston Environmental Association is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the long-term success of the Evanston Ecology Cent...
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When you visit Wildwood Nature Center, you feel transported — to somewhere far away from where you really are, to a state of mind that leaves...
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Skokie's thirteen-acre savanna and nature center is an oasis full of native wildflowers, grasses, oak trees, a three-acre pond, and trails. Residin...
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Route 31 and Harts Road in Glacial Park,
Ringwood, IL
The Lost Valley Visitor Center opened to the public in August 2010. This 28,450 square foot facility will host a number of environmental education ...
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Rustling leaves, shimmering seas of grass, a cool rush of water over rock, birds and waterfowl calling, a rainbow of wildflowers, a scamper of anim...
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Over a thousand acres of rolling, glacier formed landscape in northwest Cook County has been set aside as Crabtree Nature Center.
Before 1830, this...
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