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Sunshine on the Discovery Trail

By Alyssa Nyberg, Preserve Coordinator, Efroymson Restoration at Kankakee Sands Every place on the planet has a story. It’s quite likely that the place’s story started long before you set your eyes on it, put your feet upon it and gave your heart to it. Along with its story, it also has a personality that…

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Thanks, Bison Mama!

By Alyssa Nyberg, Preserve Coordinator, Efroymson Restoration at Kankakee Sands This Mother’s Day, whether you are thanking your own mother, or someone who was a mother to you, or even Mother Earth, let’s also thank the Bison mamas who are out there on the Kankakee Sands prairie raising the next generation of keystone grazers. Those…

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Hello Red-headed Woodpeckers!

By Alyssa NybergPreserve Coordinator, Efroymson Restoration at Kankakee Sands Have you ever been in a room, heard a person entering, and by the sound of their footsteps know who that person without hearing their voice? That’s how it is for me seated at my desk in the Kankakee Sands office! I can tell who is…

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Marsh Gladness

By Alyssa Nyberg, Preserve Coordinator & Ecologist at Kankakee Sands It’s March! And there is so much to be glad about – the great greening up of the overwintered landscape, the songs of birds in the early morning, and the thawing of the land leading to the prairies of Kankakee Sands being soaked with water.…

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