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.
  • 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...

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  • Bunker North Flatwoods

    Bunker North Flatwoods 6600 West Harts Road, Niles, IL

    Bunker North Flatwoods gets its cathedral-like character from the large old pin oaks that dominate the canopy. Join the North Branch Restoration Project and Centennial Volunteers as we restore this oak woodland...

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  • 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...

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  • Watersmeet Prairie Grove

    Watersmeet Prairie Grove 1899 winnetka road, northfield, il

    Named for the joining of the Middle and East Forks of the North Branch of the Chicago River, Watersmeet Prairie Grove has a wide variety of communities, from a limey, wet woods...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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