Author: Wendy Vernon

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"