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Illinois Restoration Ecologists Measured 34 Years of Plant Community Change in a Degraded Oak Woodland

SER MWGL member Karen Glennemeier, and colleagues Stephen Packard, and Greg Spyreas recently published in PLOS ONE results of their 34-year study documenting plant community change in Vestal Grove in the Somme Prairie Grove forest preserve in Cook County, Illinois....Read More

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Illinois DNR Announces Habitat Fund Project Grants

October 24, 2020–From The Prairie State Wire come news of a series of restoration and habitat improvement grants made by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to 11 wildlife habitat projects through the Illinois Habitat Fund Special Wildlife Funds Grant...Read More

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Attention Illinois SER MWGL members!

Are you considering attending the 2017 Illinois Native Plant Society (INPS) annual gathering June 2-4 at Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. If so, Mike Lemke, Illinois state representative to the Midwest Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER...Read More

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SER MWGL Members Invited to Annual Gathering of Illinois Native Plant Society

If you are a fan of native plants, exploring state natural areas (including restoration projects), and gathering with like-minded folks, then you won’t want to miss this years’ annual gathering of the Illinois Native Plant Society (INPS). It’s coming...Read More

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Putting the Piece of the Prairie Back Together in Illinois – Bison in the Nachusa Grassland

by Roger Anderson In Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold described the occurrence of a single compass plant in a graveyard that was established in the 1840’s. Each year in July, the plant produced a single flowering stalk with “…yellow saucer-sized...Read More