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Wild Ones Receives “Tom Dodd, Jr. Award Of Excellence” at Cullowhee Conference

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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"

The Pollinators of DuPage BioBlitz August 20, 2022 to August 28, 2022

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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"

The Women Who Saved Wildflowers, An untold story of the female ecologists who pioneered wildflower conservation

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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"

Read Cindy Crosby’s Tuesdays in the Tallgrass April 5th blog post, “The April Prairie: After the Fire”

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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”"