Kudos ~ Forest Preserve District of Will County’s Sand Ridge Savanna Nature Preserve
Floyd Catchpole and Andrew Hawkins. Photo courtesy of Forest Preserve District of Will County.
Extensive,
multiyear restoration efforts at the Forest Preserve District of Will County’s
Sand Ridge Savanna Nature Preserve have been acknowledged with an Excellence
in Ecological Restoration award from the Chicago Wilderness Alliance
(CWA).
The honor, which the district received in January during a Celebration of Conservation banquet at the Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, provides recognition for excellence in management of natural communities and sites and demonstrates on-the-ground commitment to the Biodiversity Recovery Plan established by CWA, a regional collaborative of hundreds of partner organizations and individuals working to implement landscape-scale approaches to conservation.
The honor, which the district received in January during a Celebration of Conservation banquet at the Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, provides recognition for excellence in management of natural communities and sites and demonstrates on-the-ground commitment to the Biodiversity Recovery Plan established by CWA, a regional collaborative of hundreds of partner organizations and individuals working to implement landscape-scale approaches to conservation.
Sand Ridge Savanna,
in Custer Township, is a 941-acre preserve that contains a 625-acre
state-designated nature preserve. Almost all the former agricultural acreage
has been restored to prairie through work by the Forest Preserve’s conservation
department.
For
more information about the Forest Preserve
District, visit ReconnectWithNature.org.
