February Work Day
January 26, 2012 By
Weather permitting, there will be a workday on Sunday, February 12, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteer for an hour or for the entire time. Meet at the Prairie House, located at 11225 Constitution Drive in Westchester. We will be cutting and hauling buckthorn. Our prairie plants are more likely to bloom in the Spring if they are not [...]
Take Action to Save Starved Rock State Park!
January 21, 2012 By
CONSERVATION ALERT: STARVED ROCK STATE PARK IS IN DANGER. An out-of-state company has proposed an open pit sand mine immediately adjacent to the park. This would involve draining a marsh and impacting the park with heavy traffic, as well as causing major air and noise pollution. To advocate for Starved Rock, please click on the link below to [...]
January 2012 Work Day
December 16, 2011 By
Weather permitting, there will be a workday on Sunday, January 8, 2012, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Volunteer for an hour or for the entire time. Meet at the Prairie House, located at 11225 Constitution Drive in Westchester. We will be cutting and hauling buckthorn. Our prairie plants are more likely to bloom in [...]
Prairie Work Days – Fall Season
July 20, 2011 By
Please join our dedicated volunteers to help remove invasive plants, such as buckthorn, at Wolf Road Prairie. Weather permitting, we have two more Saturday workdays scheduled for Fall on November 5 and November 14, between 9 a.m. and Noon at #9 Hickory Lane. Hickory Lane is west of the Prairie on the north side of 31st Street, just past the Cook County Forest [...]
Prairie Garden Work Days
July 19, 2011 By
Please consider joining us on Sunday evenings from 4-6 pm to help out in our beautiful Franzosenbusch Prairie House garden, located at 11225 Constitution Drive in Westchester. Whether you have a green thumb or not, everyone is welcome to come and spend an enjoyable evening helping us to make our garden even more lovely. Whatever amount [...]
Volunteer Orientation Day
July 7, 2011 By
Save the Prairie Society will be hosting a Volunteer Orientation Day on Sunday, July 17, at 3 pm on the porch of the Prairie House, located at 11225 Constitution Drive in Westchester. If you are interested in volunteering to help preserve Wolf Road Prairie, or in working with the Franzosenbusch Heritage Project, please consider attending this event. For [...]
Vern Goer’s Greenhouse
May 6, 2011 By
Help earn money for the Prairie House by shopping at Vern Goer’s Greenhouse. From May 2 through May 31, Save the Prairie Society and the Franzosenbusch Heritage Project will earn 10% of all purchases made. Just click on the following link, Vern goers, to obtain your coupon and receive further details. We appreciate your support!
Ten Ukrainian Ecologists Visit Wolf Road Prairie
April 12, 2010 By
Save the Prairie Society hosted a group of 10 urban ecologists from Ukraine at Wolf Road Prairie on February 18, 2002. The purpose of the group’s visit was to learn about volunteer restoration efforts and then translate and adapt these ideas and projects into viable programs in their homeland. We exchanged gifts. Save the Prairie [...]
Professional Development Status Awarded
April 12, 2010 By
Illinois law, 105 ILCS 5/21-14, requires that certain teachers engage in professional development activities in order to renew their teaching certificate(s). The law also requires that the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and the State Teacher Certification Board (STCB) approve providers of continuing professional development activities. Save the Prairie Society (STPS) applied for Professional [...]
Ecologists from Congo Visit Wolf Road Prairie
April 12, 2010 By
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 [...]
