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“Prairie restoration efforts will help keep these ... Hollow plot will one day be an open space – for the people of Illinois to explore. It also could be a home for many different critters ...
City officials Tuesday questioned the value of a project to establish a natural vegetative buffer along Spring Creek in areas of J.B. Hunt Park.
"There's really only a few thousand acres of tallgrass prairie like this left in Illinois," said research scientist Elizabeth Bach. But when Bach rolls over rolling hills of the Nachusa Grasslands ...
Illinois politicians are responding after ... They came back to complete the second phase of a prairie restoration project that’s giving back to the community.
A project at the University of Illinois could find a new homegrown source for sustainable fuel for air travel. WBEZ's Isabela ...
Enter Northwestern’s Prairie Cats Ecological Restoration Club ... Chen said when native vegetation disappears, Illinois wildlife and pollinators suffer. Reintroducing those species can help ...
LOCKPORT, IL —After 40,000 hours of work over six years, the Forest Preserve District of Will County has finished a major ecosystem restoration project at Prairie Bluff Preserve and Lockport ...
But “this movement looks like different things in different places … These are very unique circumstances in Illinois with these parcels of land.” Prairie Band and the state are now working ...
A news release outlining the results from Cowdery’s research at Glacial Ridge – site of the largest prairie-wetland restoration project in U.S. history – wasn’t released until May 2021 ...