Prairie House Nature Center
Geologic and Hydrologic Report on Wolf Road Prairie by Wheaton College
Conservation Campus Leadership Council
Whole Foods Market Volunteers at Wolf Road Prairie
Field Museum Students Visit Wolf Road Prairie
Ecologists from Congo Visit Wolf Road Prairie
Wetland and Watershed Seminar at Wolf Road Prairie
Professional Development Status Awarded
WFP selected as field site for Critical Trends Assessment Program
University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Program
Ukrainian Ecologists Visit Wolf Road Prairie
Conservation Campus is Native American historical site
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Ecologists from Congo Visit Wolf Road Prairie  Innocent
Baligizi, an ethnobotanist in charge of the herbarium at the Center de Recherche en Sciences
Naturelles (CSRN) in Lwiro examines milkweed pods. He explained that in the Congo the
milkweed plant is used for fertility and to bring on lactation.
His visit to Wolf Road Prairie is part of the collaborative Programme Biodiversite des Ecosystemes Aquatiques et Terrestres dans le Rift Abertin (PBEATRA) between The Field Museum of Natural History and institutions in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This program is funded by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.  Muzumani
Risasi, an ichthyologist from the Centre de Recherche Hydrologique in Uvira examines the
large bur oak at the Wolf Road Prairie savanna.
He and Innocent arrived in Chicago on September 25 and will stay through early November. They will receive training in collections management and collections-based studies of biodiversity and visit institutions such as zoos and natural areas in the region to learn more about education programs and natural area management here. They talked about environmental education and conservation with members of Save the Prairie Society. Innocent spoke of his work in an area that has been largely cut off from the rest of the world for the last ten years by warfare. This area is crucial habitat for large primates including gorilla and chimpanzee, many who are orphaned.  Innocent
could not resist the impulse to kneel down to inspect a gentian up close. He was impressed
that government bodies are buying land to protect habitat for rare species at Wolf Road Prairie. In
Congo this support must be raised privately.
Photos by John A. Wagner, Associate in Zoology at The Field Museum return to main page, Save the Prairie Society |