Cranberry Slough Nature Preserve Volunteers
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May 1, 2008. The 3rd grade classes from Hatch elementary school in Oak Park spent the day exploring, playing, & pulling garlic mustard.
We found a garter snake during the Hatch field trip.
Hatch teacher Ms. Lyles found a juvenile coyote skull & backbone.
Cranberry Slough is bordered by both prairie and woodland. Scene is from prairie
toward CS.
Grey tree frogs, spring peepers, & green frogs should be calling in the background. The audio control is here:
Grey tree frogs, spring peepers, & green frogs should be calling in the background. The audio control is here:
A wetland scene- Plants include shrubs, emergent graminoids and floaters.
A coyote killed by traffic, this individual was measured by Oliver Pergams and
found to be bigger than the upper limits given in Hoffmeister.
May 3, 2008. We had a great workday, herbiciding new invasive giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) along Country Lane.
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June 7, 2008. During today's workday Carolyn Faber, Jim Norton, Dennis Nyberg, Alex & Oliver Pergams, and Kevin & David Wokosin cleaned up honeysuckle, Japanese barberry, multiflora rose, and reed canary glass.
June 7, 2008. During today's workday Carolyn Faber, Jim Norton, Dennis Nyberg, Alex & Oliver Pergams, and Kevin & David Wokosin cleaned up honeysuckle, Japanese barberry, multiflora rose, and reed canary glass.
July 5, 2008. We had 9 people on a great workday!
A frog, tadpoles, & baby catfish (?) in Crooked Creek.
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Sept. 6, 2008. During today's workday Carolyn Faber, Jim Norton, Dennis Nyberg, Oliver Pergams, and Ken Schaeffer cleaned up Japanese barberry, European buckthorn, and black swallow-wort. We also surveyed for giant hogweed.