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Field Museum Students Visit Wolf Road Prairie May 20, 2004 Fourteen high school students from The Field Museum visited Wolf Road Prairie. They participate in a museology class (the discipline of museum design, organization, and management) that meets each week during the school year. Museology programs have been running for over a decade at Chicago's major museums. Selected students meet with museum staff to learn about diverse subjects. This group, led by museum educator, Joyce Matusewich, visited several sites where volunteers have worked to restore native ecosystems. 
Dr. John Wagner, Save the Prairie Society volunteer and board member, met the class at The Field Museum and showed them The Chicago Portage, McCormick Woods and Wolf Road Prairie's oak savanna and prairie. Students saw how the progression of European buckthorn encroachment is controlled by brush clearing and prescribed burning. Dr. Wagner reports: “We witnessed the splendor of wild hyacinths in bloom and a tiger swallowtail visiting Golden Alexanders. We were scolded by a pair of killdeers that settled down as we headed back to the Prairie House, pulling some garlic mustard along the way. Partnering with groups such as Save the Prairie Society is reward for the hard work we all do. Even the van driver commented that he had ‘no idea that places like Wolf Road Prairie are still here.’ On May 16th, John and James Wagner observed a Monarch butterfly nectaring on a Golden Alexander at the prairie. This is a very early sighting for these migrators that come north with the spring.” Photo by John A. Wagner, Associate in Zoology at The Field Museum return to main page, Save the Prairie Society |