We need your help with a little magic trick. Together we can turn $7,000 into $28,000 for ecological restoration at our new Dayton Bluffs Preserve!
The Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation has presented us with this most generous offer and challenge: If we can raise $7,000 by the end of September, they will match that amount three-to-one with a $21,000 donation.
Abracadabra – $7,000 becomes $28,000!
I’m personally asking all of our members, friends and all those who love nature and wilderness to help us meet this challenge. Dayton Bluffs is a natural and archaeological gem for the people of Ottawa and our entire region. With a mile of Fox River frontage, steep wooded ravines, Native American burial mounds, and abundant wildlife and native plant species, it’s a slice of true wilderness within an hour or two of everyone who lives in the Chicagoland area.
While cleanup and restoration efforts have already started, there’s a lot of work ahead at the 253-acre preserve to bring its natural communities back into a healthy balance and allow its woodlands and prairies to flourish and nurture plants, animals and human spirits for generations to come.
Will you donate today and give this special place a huge boost toward recovery?
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Thank you so much to the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation and to all who choose to support this challenge.
Let’s see if we can make our own magic for a place that holds such magic of its own.
~Brook McDonald, President/CE
Donations also are accepted by mail: McDonald Farm, 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd., Naperville, IL, 60565. Checks should be made payable to The Conservation Foundation, and indicate Dayton Bluffs.
