Tag: native-plants

• 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…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  July 8, 2025

  Ecological Restoration, ecology, Herbicide Applications, Uncategorized

  Crown Vetch, Ecological Restoration, Herbicide, native-plants

• 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…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  February 5, 2025

  ecology, Uncategorized

  Burn Scar, Ecological Restoration, hiking, native-plants, nature, plants, wildlife

• Skokie River Nature Preserve 1/25/2025

  

  Descriptions of this preserve can be viewed at the following sites. https://dnr.illinois.gov/inpc/area.area2lakeskokieriver.html Summary Map Images From Site 1. View from parking lot toward bike trail 2. Preserve Entrance 3. Monument Rock 4. Aspen encroaching on prairie that had been controlled by girdling. 5. McLaughlin Meadow 6. Nannyberry (Viburnum lentago) and Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius) along southern…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  January 28, 2025

  ecology, Uncategorized

  Asian Bush Honeysuckle, Bennett Meadow, biodiversity, Burn Scar, Common Buckthorn, Ecological Restoration, Herbicide, hiking, McLaughlin Meadow, native-plants, nature, Rhamnus cathcartica, Shaw Prairie, Shaw Woods, Skokie River Nature Preserve, Swinging Bridge, travel

• Drought Impacts on Prairie Plants

  

  Drought impacts on prairie plants at the Shoe Factory Road Nature Preserve in Poplar Creek are shown.

  jamesandrewmcgee

  October 10, 2024

  ecology, Uncategorized

  Drought, environment, native-plants, nature, Poplar Creek Forest Preserve, Prairie

• Baker’s Lake, Barrington Park Campgrounds, 5/27/2024

  

  Barrington Park Campgrounds is one of the best remaining examples of savanna in the Barrington Area. Citizens for Conservation had been managing the site. They control invading woody species and conduct prescribed fire to return this missing ecosystem process back into several area preserves. Summary Map Pretty Pictures Erigeron philadelphicus and comparison images from August…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  June 2, 2024

  Uncategorized

  Baker's Lake, Barrington Campgrounds, Burn Scar, Common Buckthorn, Cornus racemosa, Ecological Restoration, Erigeron philadelphicus, Euonymus fortunei, foliar application, gray dogwood, Herbicide, horse gentian, native-plants, nature, Rhamnus cathcartica, Silene stellata, starry campion, sweet Joe Pye weed, Taenidia integerrima, Triosteum, winter creeper, yellow pimpernel

• Harlem Hills 3/24/2024

  

  Summary Part One: Pasque Flower Tour Part Two: Volunteer Workday Pasque Flower Tour Jack Shouba giving a poetic Native American description of Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla patens). The first Pasque Flower I have ever seen in its native habitat. Profile view of the above Pasque Flower. A group of Pasque Flowers surrounded by snow toward the…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  March 25, 2024

  Uncategorized

  Harlem Hills, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, native-plants, Natural Land Institute, nature, Pasque Flower, spring-flowers