Pat Armstrong has just received late notice of the imminent destruction of the Pizzo-Planted FlowerHill Prairie at Calvary Church, located on the northwest corner of Route 59 and Montgomery Road (called 83rd Street east of Route 59, in Naperville.) Bulldozers are supposed to arrive sometime in the next week or two — SO WE NEED […] Continue reading "Emergency Prairie Rescue at Calvary Church in Naperville!!"
Learn more about how reintroducing bison to prairies doubles plant diversity and boosts resilience to extreme weather from Treehugger’s September 26, 2022 article, Plant Diversity Booms When Bison Return to the Prairie. Bison have been introduced to help with prairie restoration in Illinois at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmington and at Nachusa Grasslands in […] Continue reading "Plant Diversity Booms When Bison Return to the Prairie"
Susan and Ronald Kopczynski have been working as volunteers with The Conservation Foundation and with The College of DuPage Horticulture Department to design and install native prairie and rain gardens at the Waldorf School of DuPage in Warrenville, IL since spring. This has been an all volunteer project. The labor, the plants and even the […] Continue reading "Plants Needed for Volunteer Eco Gardens at The Waldorf School of DuPage"
Click here to learn more about an exciting new native pollinator garden at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in West Chicago that was created as a community effort by the DuPage Monarch Project, Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, Sierra Club River Prairie Group and several other individuals and groups. This garden will help provide much needed habitat for […] Continue reading "If You Build It They Will Come – New Native Pollinator Garden at St. Andrews Lutheran Church in West Chicago – Volunteers Needed!"
Wild Ones is pleased to share that we are the recipients of the “The Tom Dodd, Jr. Award of Excellence” which was presented at the 2022 Cullowhee Conference on Native Plants in the Landscape in Cullowhee, North Carolina on Friday, July 22nd. This prestigious award has been given annually since 1987 to individuals or organizations […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Receives “Tom Dodd, Jr. Award Of Excellence” at Cullowhee Conference"
Hosted by DuPage Monarch Project Have some summer fun by finding the colorful and beautiful pollinators visiting your garden or local park! Take pictures of butterflies, bees, flower flies and beetles with iNaturalist and be part of the Pollinators of DuPage BioBlitz. Join at https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pollinators-of-dupage-county. For more information on preparing for the BioBlitz and using […] Continue reading "The Pollinators of DuPage BioBlitz August 20, 2022 to August 28, 2022"
In Victorian times native wildflowers used to be fashionable accessories and many people used to go to the country to harvest large numbers of these flowers. Wildflowers persist in the numbers that they do today only because of the activism and research by a group of women ecologists in the early 1900’s. Read more about […] Continue reading "The Women Who Saved Wildflowers, An untold story of the female ecologists who pioneered wildflower conservation"
Click here to read Cindy Crosby’s Tuesdays in the Tallgrass April 5th blog post, “The April Prairie: After the Fire”, in which she shows some of the life after a prescribed burn at the College of DuPage’s Russell Kirt Prairie in Glen Ellyn, IL. Continue reading "Read Cindy Crosby’s Tuesdays in the Tallgrass April 5th blog post, “The April Prairie: After the Fire”"
The PBS episode 20 from season 48, Butterfly Blueprints, is a must see for anyone with an interest in butterflies. You can watch it for free right now on the WTTW PBS website until February 9, 2022. Here is the PBS description of the episode and a link to view it: The hidden scientific secrets […] Continue reading "Watch the Nova Episode “Butterfly Blueprints”"
The Wild Ones Greater DuPage Chapter is a proud parter in the DuPage Monarch Project along with the The Conservation Foundation, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, and the Sierra Club River Prairie Group. Check out the DuPage Monarch Project 2021 Annual Report to see what this partnership and the individual communities who have signed […] Continue reading "DuPage Monarch Project 2021 Annual Report is Available"
We are pleased and excited to share the news that the DuPage Monarch Project has been accepted as a Monarch Joint Venture Partner. The Greater DuPage Wild Ones is a proud partner in the DuPage Monarch Project along with The Conservation Foundation, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, and the Sierra Club River Prairie Group. […] Continue reading "DuPage Monarch Project Joins the Monarch Joint Venture Partnership"
Bell Bowl Prairie, one of the last remnant prairies in Illinois, is under threat of destruction by the Chicago Rockford International Airport expansion. Rich and diverse prairies, developing only over millennia, once covered 22 million acres of Illinois. Today, less than 1/100th of one percent of that is left even partially intact, and each fragment […] Continue reading "Save Bell Bowl Prairie"