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Want to Help Restore a Forest Preserve?

Volunteers are invited to tour Deer Grove East Forest Preserve this weekend and learn more about restoration efforts.

Buffalo Grove resident Jeff Weiss will be among the tour leaders at Deer Grove East Forest Preserve on Saturday, where community members can learn about an effort to restore its 624 acres.

Those who want to join the effort are invited to gather at 10 a.m. Oct. 8 at Deer Grove East on Dundee Road, west of Rand Road and east of Quentin Road.

Tours will be given and questions will be answered by Doug Stotz (Field Museum ornithologist, author and Amazon explorer); Linda Masters (Openlands restoration ecologist who has been managing the professionals who have started the project); Bill Koenig (FPD volunteer coordinator) and Stephen Packard (the founding director of Audubon Chicago Region, who also edited the Tallgrass Restoration Handbook and teaches at Northwestern University).

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As a site steward, Weiss said he will lead monthly work parties to continue and expand the work being done by professional restoration crews. Volunteers and professionals will work on 23 ponds, four ancient bur oak woodlands and seven prairies.

Volunteers will learn to detect and defeat the ecosystem's enemies and find, harvest and plant seeds that will restore ecosystem health.

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Visit www.DeerGroveEast.net for more information.

 


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