Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Citizens for Conservation hold April 6 program at Flint Creek Savanna in Barrington.
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Tuesday, March 26
Jon Jordon of “Spirit of the Eagle” will present a Native American cultural program about the life of Native Americans of the prairie, from 1-3 p.m., Saturday, April 6, at Flint Creek Savanna. Learn which tribes lived here, and discover facts about their daily lives, what they ate, why the prairie was important to them, and much more. This class is held outside, so please dress for the weather— layers are best. This class is open to children ages 5 and older. Caregivers are required to attend. CFC members are free. Non-members pay $5 for the first child and $1 for each additional child. Class size is limited to 40 children and registration forms are due by March 30. Please call CFC at 847-382-SAVE (7283) or email youth-ed@…
Monday, February 4, 2013
Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation offers bird of prey exploration.
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Monday, February 4
Winds began to swirl and temperatures were dropping quickly as class participants began their journey along the trail around Citizens for Conservation-owned Flint Creek Savanna. All listened attentively to Dawn Keller, President of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation while being instructed how to behave when approaching each of the volunteers holding a live bird. The crowd was thrilled to see their first raptor, a small male peregrine falcon named Sovereign, weighing only about one pound. Everyone learned that peregrine falcons are easily found in downtown Chicago roosting on the edge of skyscrapers and have diving speeds of over two-hundred miles an hour. Walking further into the prairie with the winds whipping at their faces and…
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Students removed buckthorn at Flint Creek Savanna South.
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
For the second time this year, as part of their curriculum, sixth through eighth grade students and teachers from Wauconda's Da Vinci Waldorf School provided an afternoon of service for Citizens for Conservation (CFC). On Nov. 9, once at CFC, the students remembered to find a pair of work gloves and were ready to carpool to Citizens for Conservation-owned Flint Creek Savanna South. There the students quickly and tirelessly began the removal of invasive multiflora rose and buckthorn. Recalling what they learned from their first service day, the students easily identified the invasives. After a short water break at the workday’s mid-way point, the students removed additional buckthorn and wild rose to make a pile roughly 10 feet by 10 feet…
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The program held at Flint Creek Savanna was part of Citizens for Conservation's Leave No Child Inside.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Last minute localized rains quelled fear that the creek would be dry at Citizens for Conservation-owned Flint Creek Savanna last week. Before the trek to Flint Creek, naturalist April Anderson pointed out the extremely dry conditions in the nearby wetland and discussed the hardships endured by wildlife that depends on the wetland to survive. While walking to the nearby creek, April had participants pretend they were water droplets, and she encouraged the droplets to consider their route to the creek. Was it easier for water to go up or down a hill, over gravel or through prairie plants? April also pointed out the deep crevices in the soil, wilting plants, and yellowing leaves of trees resulting from the drought. Participants were …
Thursday, August 16, 2012
The group acquired land set to be turned into part of a subdivision in Lake Barrington.
Citizens for Conservation (CFC), one of the oldest and most successful volunteer conservation groups in Illinois, announced that it is expanding its Flint Creek Savanna property by the acquisition of previously natural land slated for development in Lake Barrington, Illinois. As a result of the negotiations led by CFC, three buildable lots of the Foley Court subdivision located in Cuba Township are being acquired with a private individual, resulting in a net addition of well over two acres to CFC’s managed preserves. More importantly, the acquisition averts the total development of this subdivision and completes the work started by CFC in 2005 when it acquired one of the then four lots and received as a donation over five acres of adjacent…
