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Forest Glen Woods

Forest Glen Woods Forest Preserve 5420 N Forest Glen Ave, Chicago

An important corridor for migratory birds, Forest Glen is part of the Lower North Branch Preserves. This unique woodland, savanna, and floodplain ecosystem needs help from our volunteer community to remove invasive...

Free

Somme Prairie Nature Preserve

Somme Prairie Nature Preserve 800 Western Ave, Northbrook, il

Located in the village of Northbrook, in northern Cook County, these forest preserves span the original continuum of prairie to the west and north and savanna and woodland to the east and...

Free

Blue Star Memorial Woods

Blue Star Woods Forest Preserve Wilmette Ave & Harms Road, Glenview, il

At the center of the site is a nice oak woodland community; the northeast corner has wet oak woods with many sedges still present. Much of this site was heavily used first...

Free

Bunker Hill Savanna

Bunker Hill Forest Preserve 6800 Caldwell Ave, Chicago, il

Winding west and north along the bluff above the Chicago River, the bike path runs through the Forest Preserve known as Bunker Hill Savanna and Sidney Yates Flatwoods . Bounded by Caldwell,...

Free

North Branch Seed Garden

North Branch Seed Garden 6649 W Harts Road, Niles, IL, United States

Seeds are essential in restoring healthy native ecosystems. Not just any seeds, but those from local descendants of plants that have prospered here for thousands of years and which are adapted to...

Free

Somme Woods

Somme Woods 1714 Dundee Road, Northbrook, IL, United States

Somme Woods has bur and white oak savannas and woodlands with massive old oaks, open marshes, and ephemeral ponds. Rich with native plants and animals, the savannas and woodlands are being restored to...