This volunteer workday is part of our Garlic Mustard Days program. During the coming weeks, we will be hosting workdays focusing on the removal of this invasive species at various Shirley Heinze preserves like Lydick Bog, Walner, and Bayless Dune. Nature Highlight: Aggressive and invasive garlic mustard has popped up in many areas along our […]
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This volunteer workday is part of our Garlic Mustard Days program. During the coming weeks, we will be hosting workdays focusing on the removal of this invasive species at various Shirley Heinze preserves like Lydick Bog, Walner, and Bayless Dune. Nature Highlight: Aggressive and invasive garlic mustard has popped up in many areas along our
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This volunteer workday is part of our Garlic Mustard Days program. During the coming weeks, we will be hosting workdays focusing on the removal of this invasive species at various Shirley Heinze preserves like Lydick Bog, Walner, and Bayless Dune. Nature Highlight: Aggressive and invasive garlic mustard has popped up in many areas along our
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This volunteer workday is part of our Garlic Mustard Week. During the entire week, we will be hosting workdays focusing on the removal of this invasive species at various Shirley Heinze preserves, like Meadowbrook. Nature Highlight: Meadowbrook Nature Preserve has some of the prettiest views in the Region, but aggressive and invasive garlic mustard has
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With summer fast approaching, there’s plenty of work to be done at this beautiful preserve along the Valparaiso Moraine. Garlic mustard season is almost past us, but there will be other invasive work to undertake, along with weeding and trail maintenance. The foliage in the forest and on the trails has filled in fast! We’re
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Meadowbrook Nature Preserve has some of the prettiest views in the Region, but aggressive and invasive garlic mustard has cropped up in many areas along the trails and brush needs to be pulled. It’s a great way to get an intimate look at the preserve while helping to ensure that its native species can
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As Shirley Heinze has developed Hildebrand Lake into a preserve the public can enjoy, we’ve enlisted the help of local industry and Girl Scouts. Now we’re asking for the help of our regular volunteer corps. As with many of our properties, garlic mustard has raised its nefarious stems in stark defiance.The rolling, scenic hills are
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Lydick Bog is truly a place like no other. The rare bog habitat is home to many delicate and unique plant species, and all manner of wildlife and fungi thrive on the floating mat of peat- and the forest and field around it. Controlling invasive species in an ecosystem like this one is crucial to
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*** UPDATE: Due to the incessant rain, this workday was cancelled and will be rescheduled soon. *** This little preserve in Miller features oak forest, wetlands, high dunes and blowouts, and an incredible native plant diversity. It truly is a gem in the midst of an urban landscape. The cactus-studded, sandy slopes of Bayless need
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UPDATE: DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS WORKDAY RESCHEDULED FROM TUESDAY, MAY 7TH to TUESDAY, MAY 14TH. Keith Richard Walner Nature Preserve comprises an impressive and significant floodplain forest along the Little Calumet River. It’s home to herons, beaver, owls, deer, and a wide array of other wildlife. Visitors can still see traces of the river’s
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