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The Friends of the Sands blog shares the latest news from prairie, savanna, and marshland. Would you like to contribute a blog post on our page? Please contact us with your idea!

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Insects

March’s Grand Surprise

By Alyssa Nyberg, Restoration Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy’s Kankakee Sands Ready for a grand surprise? Summer is not the only time to see butterflies at Kankakee Sands. March can be, too! Wait, what—March? Believe it or not, if you head out for a walk on a sunny day this chilly month March in an…

Birds

Getting Warmed Up with the Rough-legged Hawk

By Alyssa Nyberg, Restoration Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy’s Kankakee Sands My ninety-year-old neighbor used to tell me that he was going out fishing… not catching, but fishing. It’s about the experience, he’d tell me. And that is how it is with me and birding… it’s about the experience. Attempting to see some birds –…

Nature

A Visit from a Good Luck Sparrow

By Alyssa Nyberg, Restoration Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy’s Kankakee Sands December and January are ‘a visiting time’ – a time to escape the chill of winter and explore new spaces in far-away places, or to travel to see friends and family in old familiar haunts and catch up on the year that was.  It’s…

Native Plant Sale

Seed-harvesting Time

By Jeanette Jaskula It’s seed-harvesting time and we could use your help! Friends of the Sands is setting aside seed for growing out into plants that we will offer next May at our annual Native Plant Sale. If you have seeds of any of the plants listed below that you might like to donate, please…

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