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Little Acts of Short-eared Owl Kindness

By Alyssa Nyberg, Preserve Coordinator & Ecologist at Kankakee Sands Feel like adding a little joy to your day? A late afternoon walk or drive at Kankakee Sands, amidst the wintertime ice-covered prairie that glitters and sparkles as the sun sets, to see the short-eared owls is a wonderful way to end a day! When…

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The Magic is Back!

By Alyssa Nyberg, Preserve Coordinator & Ecologist at Kankakee Sands Magic has returned to the prairie! For many people, December is the most magical time of the year – holidays, foods, families, long-starry nights and beautiful snow-covered landscapes. How fitting that this is also the point in the year when the merlins return to Kankakee…

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Who’s in Charge?

By Alyssa Nyberg, Preserve Coordinator & Ecologist at Kankakee Sands When you look out over the Kankakee Sands bison pasture and spot a six-foot tall male bull bison weighting more than 1500 pounds, you might think to yourself, “Now there’s a fella that makes decisions!” And that bull bison certainly does make decisions… for himself.…

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A Prairie Workout: Chasing the Autumn Yellow-Winged Grasshopper

By Alyssa Nyberg, Preserve Coordinator & Ecologist at Kankakee Sands “How hard can that be?” That’s what I thought when the Student Conservation Interns and I were asked to join a researcher who was hoping to catch a particular species of grasshopper on the Kankakee Sands prairie. I figured that with several years of netting…

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