Tag: conservation

Hosah Prairie: Creating a Legacy of Knowledge Presentation and North Dunes Walk

View Calendar Details HIKE Join us for a hike at the North Dunes Nature Preserve to see a large and diverse area containing wetland, prairie, savanna and beach communities, with a chance to encounter a variety of rare lakeshore species. Then join Kathleen Garness and Gerould Wilhelm to learn about the history of Hosah Park……
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Recollections of Prairie Discovery

When my parents moved to Northbrook in 1951, the entire area between Crabtree Lane and Dundee Road was prairie and unchanneled west fork of the north branch of the Chicago River (except for a handful of houses on the north side of Crabtree Lane near Western Ave). Many natural prairie areas that had never been…
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