Welcome to “Babbling Brook”, a blog series featuring our fearless leader Brook McDonald as he rambles around northeastern Illinois! I bet you hiked and spent more time outside in 2020.
To no surprise, my wife wanted to visit a new place and hike on Mother’s Day. Although we usually head south or west from our home near Plano to explore
Walking through donor and Conservation@Home certified member Robin LaBancz’s Bartlett oasis of a yard on a coolish day this summer, I felt my mood and energy level lift with every
This is a land that has stories. You can hear it in the soughing of the trees as you enter the shade of the forest. You can see it in
A new joint project of The Conservation Foundation and Recovery International combines cognitive-behavioral mental health tools with images of nature from northern Illinois natural areas, forest preserves and parks. Find
In an age of climate change, urbanization, increasingly frequent and intense storms and prolonged drought, how can we plan and design stormwater best management practices for the future? This is
It seems only fitting that McDonald Farm volunteer Bill Dawe should bear such a striking resemblance to Santa Claus! Though his gifts of time, humor, blood, sweat, some tears, and
Aricema, an Itasca Bank & Trust Co. employee, volunteering at the Bensenville- Wood Dale Food Pantry In a time when our conservation work is getting done more and more at
A couple of weeks ago, I sat down to research an influential woman in conservation in honor of Women’s History Month. There are many across the nation and world, but
The 31st Annual DuPage River Sweep will be held Saturday, May 21, 2022 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The annual DuPage County River Sweep is a county-wide self-coordinated stream cleanup
Over our 47 year history, The Conservation Foundation has helped preserve more than 35,000 acres of land in northeastern Illinois. We have no one-size-fits-all land protection methods – we’ve been
2020 is finally over, but things are still not quite back to normal, and these colder months make it more difficult to gather outside where it feels a little safer.
After 20 years of working at The Conservation Foundation, our Vice President of Land and Watershed Programs Dan Lobbes has some advice to share: “If you want to get somewhere,
Steve Tiwald and his wife Karen Hutt were the founders twenty years ago of the Green Earth Institute, the organic farming operation headquartered at McDonald Farm that is now our
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