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October 2019
Fall Paddle Festival
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,…
Find out more »Seed Collection for Skokie Lagoons
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
Find out more »Stars, Stories & S’mores
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.
Find out more »November 2019
Skokie Lagoons Stewardship Volunteer Day
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…
Find out more »December 2019
Skokie Lagoons Stewardship Volunteer Day
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…
Find out more »February 2020
Let’s Play! Winter Woods Exploration
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…
Find out more »March 2020
Trees: Back To Our Roots [Going Green Matters]
Go Green Wilmette’s premier environmental fair draws more than 1,400 participants from twenty communities.
Find out more »April 2020
Event Cancelled: Earth Day at Erickson Woods
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…
Find out more »June 2020
Let’s Play! Forest Exploration
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…
Find out more »May 2021
Community Science Day at Skokie Lagoons
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…
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