Salt Creek Watershed Network Events
2011 Events (Links are colored orange.) Our meeting schedule and location is at the bottom of this column.
Save the Dates for Salt Creek clean ups!
Please come to help remove debris along and in Salt Creek. This annual outside event is a fun activity. It helps preserve an open and scenic waterway enhancing its use by bike trail riders, path walkers, as well as canoeists and kayakers that float down the creek.
Saturday June 4 - 9:00 a.m.- noon
Elk Grove Village
Meet at Elk Grove High School along the Creek at 9:00am.
Volunteers will be provided garbage bags, gloves and pick up stix to use. You should dress for the weather and possible muddy conditions. Waders and or Canoes especially welcomed.
Contact: For more information ask Nick Nikola 847-828-1141 E-Mail creekguy@comcast.net
Watershed Enhancements Workdays
Restoring natural areas in the watershed helps to reduce flooding and restore ground water levels. Stream bank and wetland enhancements provide habitat for waterfowl and other wetland dependent wildlife. A few hours of your time working on natural areas restoration can have a big impact on long term water quality. (These are not SCWN sponsored events.)
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Habitat 2030 is a group of dynamic Generation Xers who care about the remarkable natural areas of the Chicago region. We are continuing the long history of volunteer stewardship at these sites and helping to build a culture of 20-30-40-somethings who will understand and care about our preserves to the year 2030 and beyond.
Matt Haas
Volunteer Steward - Busse Woods
HABITAT2030@gmail.com or
bussewoodsvolunteer@gmail.com
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Elmhurst Great Western Railroad Prairie
Elmhurst Great Western Prairie, 2011 Schedule
June 18 Weeding (mostly parsnip)
June 25 Weeding and seed picking (porcupine grass)
July 16 Weeding (mostly parsnip and ragweed)
Aug. 20 Weeding (mostly ragweed)
Sept. 17 Seed picking
Oct. 15 Seed picking
Nov. 19 Seed spreading, brush cutting
All are Saturdays.
Other activities may be added depending on what's needed.
Meet at Berkley Ave. in Elmhurst and the Illinois Prairie Path at 9 A.M.
Berkley Ave. is five blocks east of Highway 83 on St. Charles Rd.; the Prairie
Path is three blocks south of St. Charles Rd.
Contact: David Price (dprice@epd.org or 630-993-8909)
or Keith Olson (keitholson@usa.net
or 630-834-7357)
SCWN Meetings - time and place
Meeting Schedule
First Monday of the month: schedule for 2011:
Mondays Feb 7, Mar 7, April 4, May 2, June 6, Aug 1, Oct 3, Nov 7, Dec 5.
No meetings in January, July, and September.
Meetings start at 7:00 pm with a Meet and Greet session.
Meetings will be held at the LaGrange Park Library unless *noted above. Meetings are held in the up stairs Conference room. The stairs are strait ahead from the entrance.
555 N LaGrange Road
LaGrange Park, Il 60526
708.352.0100
Map of La Grange Park, IL 60526, US
Presentations or open Meet & Greet sessions are from 7:00 - 8:00 pm.
The Salt Creek Watershed Network holds meetings the first Monday of the month, except for the Mondays following holiday weekends.