Saturday April 18, Cap Sauers Holding
Missed this one due to another commitment - with Earth Day on April 22, the preceding weekend was chock-full of Earth Day activities. Our volunteers returned to the area on the northwest side of Cap Sauers for another day of brush clearing, probably the last of winter-spring season..
Sunday April 19, Black Partridge Woods
After a couple months of being unable to burn brush piles, the weather finally cooperated. Though we were small in numbers (John, Jim, Jan, Anna, Lamees and Kathy, plus David and Eric from Tinley Resource Management) we got almost all of the already-cut brush burned plus another large swath cleared by David and Eric with brushcutter and chainsaw!
Other Earth Day/Earth Week Activities
On Saturday Little Red Schoolhouse hosted a small group of students from Evergreen Park High School who came to do restoration. Dave Branigan and I worked with naturalist Rebecca Moss to eliminate a thicket of honeysuckle, the ultimate 'sore thumb', nestled between the old schoolhouse building and Long John Slough. The students dove in with loppers and bowsaws, and less than two hours later, with a last-minute flurry, managed to down all the targets. They did so well!
Also on Saturday, a group of 20-25 Boy Scouts from the SW region(Portage Creek) joined Diana Krugat Paddock Woods, cutting honeysuckle on the north side of the Yellow Trail opposite the Palos Park North parking lot on Kean Avenue. They were on a five-miles hike through 40 Acre and Swallow Cliff Woods and stopped for a 90 minut4e session of brush-cutting.
We don't have any pictures or account of this - winging it based on two piles of hot embers spotted in that location late Saturday afternoon. My stringers must want a raise and are sending a message.
Missed this one due to another commitment - with Earth Day on April 22, the preceding weekend was chock-full of Earth Day activities. Our volunteers returned to the area on the northwest side of Cap Sauers for another day of brush clearing, probably the last of winter-spring season..
Sunday April 19, Black Partridge Woods
After a couple months of being unable to burn brush piles, the weather finally cooperated. Though we were small in numbers (John, Jim, Jan, Anna, Lamees and Kathy, plus David and Eric from Tinley Resource Management) we got almost all of the already-cut brush burned plus another large swath cleared by David and Eric with brushcutter and chainsaw!
Other Earth Day/Earth Week Activities
On Saturday Little Red Schoolhouse hosted a small group of students from Evergreen Park High School who came to do restoration. Dave Branigan and I worked with naturalist Rebecca Moss to eliminate a thicket of honeysuckle, the ultimate 'sore thumb', nestled between the old schoolhouse building and Long John Slough. The students dove in with loppers and bowsaws, and less than two hours later, with a last-minute flurry, managed to down all the targets. They did so well!
Also on Saturday, a group of 20-25 Boy Scouts from the SW region(Portage Creek) joined Diana Krugat Paddock Woods, cutting honeysuckle on the north side of the Yellow Trail opposite the Palos Park North parking lot on Kean Avenue. They were on a five-miles hike through 40 Acre and Swallow Cliff Woods and stopped for a 90 minut4e session of brush-cutting.
We don't have any pictures or account of this - winging it based on two piles of hot embers spotted in that location late Saturday afternoon. My stringers must want a raise and are sending a message.
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