The Skokie Lagoons preserve is a network of forest, artificial lagoons, channels, and islands. Known to the Potawatomi people as "Chewab Skokie" or "big wet prairie", the area was well known as wildlife habitat. Our stewardship work seeks to reestablish...
Join The Alliance for Early Childhood at Lloyd Park to use simple, natural materials to build something amazing. This Fort Building program is intended for children of all ages. Parents or caregivers are asked to attend with their children. No...
Embrace the fall season with nature-based activities on and off the water. BackYard Nature Center partners with Forest Preserves of Cook County to offer a day filled with paddle trips in a canoe or kayak, archery, pumpkin painting, nature play,...
Join us for a Fall day of native seed collecting at the Forest Preserve Volunteer Resource Center. Bring work gloves, insect repellent, and be prepared for muddy conditions. Parking is available on site. Contact Gary Morrissey, gmorrissey001@comcast.net
Join us for an evening in the Forest Preserves. Enjoy a cozy fire, s’mores, storytelling, astronomy, night hikes, natural material building, and a bat sonar activity with the Forest Preserves of Cook County.
The Skokie Lagoons preserve is a network of forest, artificial lagoons, channels, and islands. Known to the Potawatomi people as "Chewab Skokie" or "big wet prairie", the area was well known as wildlife habitat. Our stewardship work seeks to reestablish...
The Skokie Lagoons preserve is a network of forest, artificial lagoons, channels, and islands. Known to the Potawatomi people as "Chewab Skokie" or "big wet prairie", the area was well known as wildlife habitat. Our stewardship work seeks to reestablish...
Bundle-up and head outside to join The Alliance for Early Childhood and Community Partners, Backyard Nature Center, NSSED, and The Chicago Botanic Garden, to engage in imaginative, and child-directed, outdoor free-play in the woods. INTENDED AGE AUDIENCE: ALL AGES ARE...
Go Green Wilmette’s premier environmental fair draws more than 1,400 participants from twenty communities.
Join us for an Earth Day Celebration! BackYard Nature Center in conjunction with the Forest Preserves of Cook County and the Shedd Aquarium will be sponsoring nature hikes, bird walks, fishing lessons, a nature playground for children, and restoration activities...
Preschool is out for the summer! Join The Alliance for Early Childhood and Community Partners, Backyard Nature Center, Chicago Botanic Garden, Cook County Forest Preserve, and NSSED to engage in creative, imaginative, and child-directed, outdoor free-play as a family in the...
Join Shedd Aquarium for a special day of community science at Skokie Lagoons. Come meet Shedd researchers and see first hand how habitat restoration and community science tools like iNaturalist and Great Lakes Fish Finder help us learn about and...
Embrace the fall season with nature-based activities on and off the water. We will have individual, tandem, and group canoe trips, guided hikes, youth and adult archery, pumpkin painting, nature play, s’mores, and more! In partnership with BackYard Nature Center....
Bundle up and head outside to join The Alliance for Early Childhood and Community Partner and Backyard Nature Center to engage in imaginative and child directed, outdoor free-play in the woods. INTENDED AGE AUDIENCE: ALL AGES ARE WELCOME Registration is...
Featuring: Hikes Stewardship Hiking stick carving Nature play Monkey lines More information to follow!
