photo: nicko

Santa Fe Prairie

41°45'28.17"N    87°51'28.50"W

visitor center open year-round
-Saturdays, 10AM-2PM
-Sundays if you're lucky
or as otherwise noted/until everyone gets tired and goes home

Chicago Wilderness Magazine article about SFP

contact

Google group forum. Post a message or query for the volunteers.

photo: Felix


2011 Volunteer Calendar
(Last updated: )
Saturday, 1 October, 10am
Dawne and Nicko are getting married at the Prairie!

Dawne and I have been together for six years now, and the Prairie Volunteers have been so kind and supportive and just damn good people and friends since the time that Dawne and I met. Invitations will be sent out, to as many volunteers as we can, but the informal ceremony will be short and sweet and anyone and everyone is invited to share this special ceremony, if only for a laugh. I hope you are as excited for us as we are.

23 April
Seventh annual EASTER BEER HUNT
(What the hell is an Easter Beer Hunt?)

Saturday, 12 Noon
Refreshments will be supplied.

February 2011
The GREAT BUZZARD
blizzard video

Taken by Nicko in Cicero, IL

From 2010 Calendar

20 March

First day of Spring!
(and a thoroughly lousy one, at that)

14 January

2009 Annual Report

As compiled by Starsky and Hutch.

3 December

The Three Million Dollar Fish

Single Asian carp found in Chicago-area fish kill

msnbc article

LOCKPORT, Ill. - Environmental officials say they have found a single Asian carp in a canal leading to Lake Michigan--the closest any of the giant fish have come to the Great Lakes.

Environmentalists fear the Asian carp could starve out other fish and devastate the $7 billion-a-year Great Lakes fishing industry.

Department of Natural Resources assistant director John Rogner says the single fish was found Thursday among tens of thousands of other species scooped up during a kill operation in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

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