Tag: Ecological Restoration
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Poplar Creek, Schaumburg Road Grasslands, 11/22/2025
Contents Map Images From Site Views 1. Prairie Grass Just After Sunset 2. Sunset Through Oak Trees 3. Late Fall Color of Birch (Yellow) and Raspberries (Red) with Lotus Seed Pods (Achenes) in Foreground Burn Scar 4. Looking north of the southernmost burn scar on 2/15/2023. 5. Looking north of the southernmost burn scar on…
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Hosah Glossy Buckthorn Control 10/11/2025
Contents Maps Discussion Future Goals Images from Workday Piles of Cut Stems Herbicide Applications Views of Treatment Areas From Different Directions Views of Smaller Work Area Fauna Precipitation Maps Closer view of work area in above map. Discussion This post was written to record the work completed at the 10/11 workday at Hosah Park. Glossy…
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Poplar Creek Gray Dogwood Mowing 10/7/2024 and 8/12/2025
I visited Shoe Factory Road Prairie Nature Preserve last year. I took photographs of areas where gray dogwood, Cornus racemosa, had been mowed. I wanted to see how much impact the mowing had on these gray dogwoods the next year. These views are from along the trail that goes from the Carl R. Hansen Woods…
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Deer Grove East Workday 7/12/2025
During this workday, seedhead were removed from invasive reed canary grass, Phalaris arundinacea. I saw bird’s-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculata, in the prairie reconstruction. I asked, and the steward was happy to let me remove it. I used my dandelion weeder to cut small plugs of soil around the taproot of the bird’s-foot trefoil so it…
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Prairie Plants Reclaiming Area Where Common Buckthorns Had Been Controlled
The images below are a sequence from an area where common buckthorns had been controlled. The common buckthorns dominated this area. This area was along the edge of extant prairie vegetation. The area where common buckthorns had been controlled was high-quality prairie vegetation before it had succumbed to the expanding front of common buckthorns. The…
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Palatine Prairie Crown Vetch Control 7/6/2025
Contents Map Images Discussion Map The red line and arrows show the path I took when taking the images below. Images The images below are of locations where Crown Vetch is being controlled at Palatine Prairie. Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) impacted by herbicide over spray. Crown vetch (Securigera varia) hiding in the grass. A bare…
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Sweet Clover
A Lawn Down the Block Yellow sweet clover growing and flowering in a mowed lawn. Closer view of some yellow sweet clover plants in a mowed lawn. White sweet clover will also send up sprouts when mowed in a lawn. I will add images of this when I have taken some. Added 8/9/2025 A Nature…
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Hosah Workday 6/14/2025
Contents Map Images From Site Crown Vetch Control Area East of the South Side of the Panne Comparison From When Treatment Occurred Versus This Visit Crown Vetch That Missed Being Treated Off-Target Damage Crown Vetch Control Area in the Northeast Corner of Preserve Comparison From When Treatment Occurred Versus This Visit Crown Vetch That Missed…
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Minimizing Damage From Burn Scars
Deer Grove Forest Preserve 4/29/2025 Summary Map Explanation of Images Images From Site Burn Pile Over Snow 3/7/2015 1. Looking North 2. Looking East 3. Looking South 4. Looking West Spring Ephemerals That Emerged Through the Charcoal and Ash 5. Trillium and Erythronium 6. Closer View of Trillium and Charcoal 7. Claytonia virginica 8. Hepatica…
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Orland Grassland 2/3/2025
Websites with information about the preserve are included below. https://www.orlandgrassland.org/ https://volunteer-fpdcc.givepulse.com/event/414052-orland-grassland-stewardship-volunteer-days https://fpdcc.com/places/locations/orland-grassland/ https://dnr.illinois.gov/inpc/lwr-display.orland-grassland%C2%A0.html Summary Map Images From Site 1. Meeting location according to FPCC volunteer website. 2. Sign at Old Farm Road Trail entrance. 3. View beyond cable gate at Old Farm Road Trail entrance. 4. Looking toward Bobolink Hill. 5. Looking up Bobolink Hill…
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