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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Led by John Wagner and photo by John Wagner Field Museum Students Visit Wolf Road Prairie 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 [...]