Category Archives: Nature

By: Jeanette Jaskula, President, Friends of the Sands Thank you to everyone who supported our Native Plant Sale this year. We raised $3,706 to support conservation work in Newton County! This was the best sale we have ever had! This sale is one of my favorite FOS events. I enjoy handing people their boxes fullContinue reading “2021 Native Plant Sale a Huge Success!”

By: Barb Lucas, Kankakee Sands Birder June is a great month to see and/or hear the breeding bird species at Kankakee Sands. Two species easy to spot are the Eastern Meadowlark and Dickcissel. If you join us for a birding field trip on Saturday, June 19, you should get to enjoy both. We’ll also attemptContinue reading “Birding at Kankakee Sands”

By: Alyssa Nyberg, The Nature Conservancy It’s that exciting time of the year when the bison calves are born! At the close of 2020, we had 93 bison in our in our Kankakee Sands herd. As I pen this article, twenty-one calves have already been documented in the bison pasture, which means that for theContinue reading “Bison, by the Numbers”