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.
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Jan. 2, 2009. We had a good winter workday with 9 people cutting honeysuckle, including Dennis Nyberg, Oliver Pergams, Alex Pergams, Matthias Pergams, Dan Johnson, Theresa Kurth, Kevin Wolz, Rick Davey, and Jim Sevik.
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May 2, 2009. The workday was in unit C. It focused on the open wet savanna west of Buutonbush Slough just south of 95th St.
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July 4, 2009. We worked near where the multiuse trail crosses the outlet of Buttonbush Slough.
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Sept. 5, 2009. We worked in the prairie area east of CS itself & also burned brush piles.
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Nov. 7, 2009. We had a huge workday Nov. 7. There were about 35 volunteers, including a bunch of high school freshmen from the new Chicago Bulls College Prep (http://www.chicagobullscollegeprep.org). Thank you!
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Dec. 5, 2009. Nice sunny day working in the south end of the site, 11 person-hours.
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Jan. 2, 2009. We had a good winter workday with 9 people cutting honeysuckle, including Dennis Nyberg, Oliver Pergams, Alex Pergams, Matthias Pergams, Dan Johnson, Theresa Kurth, Kevin Wolz, Rick Davey, and Jim Sevik.
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May 2, 2009. The workday was in unit C. It focused on the open wet savanna west of Buutonbush Slough just south of 95th St.
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July 4, 2009. We worked near where the multiuse trail crosses the outlet of Buttonbush Slough.
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Sept. 5, 2009. We worked in the prairie area east of CS itself & also burned brush piles.
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Nov. 7, 2009. We had a huge workday Nov. 7. There were about 35 volunteers, including a bunch of high school freshmen from the new Chicago Bulls College Prep (http://www.chicagobullscollegeprep.org). Thank you!
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Dec. 5, 2009. Nice sunny day working in the south end of the site, 11 person-hours.
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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.