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Wild City Human Ecosystem ...  Elevator Hope: A Native Plant Anecdote
 
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October Membership Meeting:
How Did Your Garden Grow?

 

Presented by West Cook Wild Ones


Sunday, October 17, 2021
2:30-4:00 PM CDT
Location: Online (Zoomtown)
Cost: Nope (Free/gratis)

Registration required
Tickets at Eventbrite 

Human beings still have an ignominious ignorance about nature.
As native plant gardeners, this makes us neophytes and beginners, running the spectrum of beginning beginner, experienced beginner to expert beginner. 
 

The natural world continues to surprise us with its simple complexity and unexpected depth. Bring your beginning beginner to expert beginner knowledge, photos, and questions to the Wild Ones West Cook October Membership meeting. Native gardeners can always learn something new.


Members and non-members are sent this newsletter. Receiving it does not mean you are a West Cook Wild Ones member. Not a member but would like to join in the fun and become part of the native plant community?  Join West Cook Wild Ones.

 

Wild City, Human Ecosystem:
Wolf Road Prairie, Westchester, Illinois


Presented by Wyatt Widmer


Sunday, November 21, 2021
2:30-4:00 PM CDT
Location: Online (Zoomtown)
Cost: Nada (Free/gratis)
Registration required
Tickets at Eventbrite

 
Learn about Wolf Road Prairie, a rare remnant black earth prairie, nestled in Chicago's sprawling suburbs. Wyatt Widmer, steward of Wolf Road Prairie, discusses the ecosystem of the prairie. Wyatt will teach us about its biodiverse species and will explore how the prairie and humans can exist together as mutually beneficial parts of the ecosystem.
 

Elevator Hope:
A Native Plant Anecdote

One of our members attended the Root and Blues Festival in Columbia, MO, last weekend.  On the last day of the festival,  the member wore a T-shirt from Izel Native Plants. The front of the shirt sported a graphic of an ironweed flower Vernania baracensis; above it,  the words “GROW WEED.”

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Also of interest


Save Bell Prairie
Environmentalists work to save prairie at Chicago Rockford International Airport. Endangered species rusty patched bumblebee sighted. 
mystateline.com 
Save Bell Prairie Facebook Group

 

"Insects are vanishing from our planet at an alarming rate. But there are ways to help them"
The Guardian 
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse  Harper Collins
 

"Midwest bumble bees declined with more farmed land, less diverse crops since 1870"
University of Wisconsin Madison

 

Wildlife Officials Take 23 Species Off The Endangered List Due To Extinction
"Nearly two dozen species are being removed from the endangered species list because they are extinct. More than a million other species are at risk of extinction because of human activities."
NPR

We’re Living Through One of the Most Explosive Extinction Episodes Ever
Henry Paulson (past Treasury secretary, Goldman Sachs chairman and former board chairman of The Nature Conservancy)  NY Times


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