Join the Spring Creek Stewards and Citizens for Conservation for a fun, hands-on celebration of this year’s seed season! We’ll work together to mix thousands of pounds of locally collected […]

Join us as we admire the fall colors and beauty of the Des Plaines River. The final three miles of the Des Plaines River Trail have more lost, abandoned, and […]

Sand Ridge is a woodland and prairie site with a magnificent nature center attached. Join our volunteer crew for a restoration day to help restore our forest preserves. Meet outside of the […]

Join the Forest Preserves of Cook County to gather and separate all of the native seed collected during the 2025 season! Volunteers can learn more about the seed collecting process […]

Mindful nature walk to connect with the landscape and embrace the season Cozy bonfire to gather, reflect, and warm up together Art-making and creative expression inspired by nature Hands-on stewardship […]

The Miami Woods Forest Preserve covers 112 acres stretching along the west side of the North Branch of the Chicago River from Oakton Street northward to Dempster Street.  It is […]

Sand Ridge is a woodland and prairie site with a magnificent nature center attached. Join our volunteer crew for a restoration day to help restore our forest preserves. Meet outside […]

We will continue our brush pile and buckthorn work from Thursday, as we push Craftsbury’s wall of shrubs further west. Registration: No registration required! If you are interested in signing […]

Join us in the forest preserves for tai chi, a slow meditative practice involving physical movement and mental relaxation.

Dan Ryan Woods is an expansive area covering 257 acres of Cook County. The site is home to beautiful woodlands, and flora and fauna that thrive in it.  During our volunteer days, you can […]

Eggers Woods is a beautiful site made of woodlands, marshes, and prairies. For a better view of the flora and fauna at this site, join us for a volunteer day performing ecological restoration. Meet at […]

St. Paul Woods is an inviting oak-hickory woodland situated east of the North Branch of the Chicago River. Like many of our native woodlands, it needs management to clear invasive brush and trees to restore the original structure. With increased sunlight, the wildflowers and grasses will once again add to the beauty of the woods. Join […]

Come help us save a beautiful old white oak from being encroached on by buckthorn and honeysuckle! All tools will be provided. Meeting location- The Earth Day oak is at the north end of Healy Savanna. Park on Healy Rd. Access from Penny Rd at the North (Not from Rt 72.) Drive to the end […]

Join us at Whistler Woods for our volunteer days! We will be performing a variety of restoration activities in this woodland and prairie-dominant site. Meet at the end of the parking lot.

Join the North Branch Restoration Project to restore this oak woodland to its former beauty! This 76-acre site depends on a community of volunteers to remove invasive species, spread native seed, and much more. Large pin oaks are a unique feature of this preserve, which is also home to some beautiful spring ephemerals. Visit The […]

Kickapoo Woods is a site with beautiful wet prairies in Riverdale, IL. During volunteer days, you can get up close and personal with nature performing a variety of restoration activities. Meet at the volunteer kiosk.

Formed by an old loop in the river’s course, lies the Oxbow Prairie. This old oxbow in the Chicago River’s North Branch is a combination of low, wet prairie soils and slightly higher mesic prairie soils. A small open savanna lies on what was once the east bank of the river. The mesic prairie had […]

St. Paul Woods is an inviting oak-hickory woodland situated east of the North Branch of the Chicago River. Like many of our native woodlands, it needs management to clear invasive brush and trees to restore the original structure. With increased sunlight, the wildflowers and grasses will once again add to the beauty of the woods. Join […]