Welcome! To join a workday, please RSVP or contact the stewards ahead of time (see Contacts at the bottom of each event).

NOTE: All youth (under 18 years of age) must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, or be part of a chaperoned group (e.g. scouts, schools, etc). See our FAQs page for details.
  • Harms Woods East

    Harms East Forest Preserve 265 Harms Road, Morton Grove, il

    Harms Woods East is a mixture of upland woods, floodplain and wet woods lying east of the Chicago River. Work at this part of the site began in 2012 with brush removal...

    Free
  • Somme Woods South

    Somme Woods South 1625 Ferndale Ave, Northbrook, IL, United States

      Somme Woods South Parking for these workdays is on a residential street. See below. To volunteer or for more information contact:  Linda Masters For workdays at Somme Woods South, park only on the south...

    Free
  • Oxbow Prairie

    Oxbow Prairie 6800 N Caldwell Ave, Chicago, il

    Oxbow Prairie, formed by an old loop in the river’s course, lies northwest of Bunker Hill Savanna. This old oxbow in the Chicago River’s North Branch is a combination of low, wet...

    Free
  • Linne Woods

    Linne Woods 6316 Dempster, Morton Grove, il

    Linne Woods boasts such spring wildflowers as windflower and toothwort under a canopy of oaks and hickories with an understory of ironwood and black cherry. Directions: For Linne Woods north, go west...

    Free
  • Harms Flatwoods

    Harms Flatwoods IL, United States

    In the village of Skokie, east of the Chicago River’s North Branch, Harms Flatwoods is dominated by huge old bur and swamp white oaks, with an understory of black ash, winterberry, hazelnut...

    Free
  • Miami Woods and Prairie

    Miami Woods Forest Preserve 8200 N Caldwell Ave, Niles, IL

    The Miami Woods Forest Preserve covers 112 acres stretching along the west side of the North Branch of the Chicago River from Oakton Street northward to Dempster Street.  It is bounded on...

    Free