Tag: travel

• Thelma Carpenter Prairie, Nachusa Grasslands, 4/18/2026 Flowers, Badger Mound Succession, and Red Clover

  

  Contents Introduction Fire Intensity Maps Images From Site 1. Bison in Distance (South Lowden Road) 2. Sign 3. Prairie Violet (Viola pedatifida) 4. Hoary Puccoon (Lithospermum canescens) 5. Pasture Thistle (Cirsium discolor) 6. Thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica) 7. Arrowleaf Violet (Viola sagittata) 8. Bird’s-foot Violet (Viola pedata) 9. Early Buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis) 10. False Toadflax (Comandra…

  jamesandrewmcgee

  April 27, 2026

  Badger Mound Succession, Ecological Restoration, Flowers, Red Clover, Uncategorized

  Badger Mounds, Flowers, photography, Prairie, Red Clover, Succession, travel

• 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