Author: Wendy Vernon

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"