Special Interest Yoga Under the Oaks Ages 14+ Thursdays, 11 a.m.–Noon Lost Valley Visitor Center, Glacial Park, Ringwood Fee: R $10.00 / NR $13.00 Welcome the summer morning under oak trees and scenic wetlands during a yoga practice! Please provide your own yoga mat, limited supply available. If the weather is unfavorable, we will be indoors. We will be on Weg Thomas brick outdoors or bamboo if we have to go indoors. Remember sunscreen, sunglasses and water! Site Seldom Seen All Ages June 20 July 18 August 15 Saturday, June 8, Noon–1 p.m. Code: 9208 Code: 9209 Code: 9210 Elizabeth Lake Nature Preserve Varga Archaeological Site, Richmond Fee: Free Code: 9212 s es Papermaking with Prairie Florals Ages: 8+ N n The highest quality lake ecosystem remaining a V e Saturday, June 29, 10 a.m.-Noon it r in McHenry County and one of the highest in e gu Prairieview Education Center, Crystal Lake r Illinois, Elizabeth Lake Nature Preserve Varga a M Fee: R Free / NR $5.00 Code: 9241 Archeological Site is located in the northeast end of the county. Experience the breathtaking Join us for a hands-on workshop that combines views and learn its history. We'll be walking the beauty of prairie 昀氀owers with the art of across a creek and through wet prairies, so papermaking. Participants will create unique wear waterproof shoes or ones that you are paper sheets infused with the essence of okay with getting wet. blooming prairie 昀氀ora. Building a Rain Garden Ages 14+ Monday, July 1, 7-8:30 p.m. Bison Ranch Stories Ages 14+ Lost Valley Visitor Center, Glacial Park, Ringwood Sunday, June 30, 1-2:30 p.m. Fee: R Free / NR $5.00 Code: 9228 Location and parking info will be sent to registrants. Join Jen Oliver, District Landscape Architect, as Fee: R Free / NR $5.00 Code: 9236 she describes the process used to build the rain McHenry County Conservation District is using garden at Lost Valley Visitor Center, including bison and regenerative grazing to restore and ess na N the design, materials and plants chosen for a manage soil health along with wildlife habitat Bren rain garden, as well as the installation process. in prairie and savanna ecosystems. The District's This program is followed by a short walk on a Agricultural Ecologist and Restoration Ecologist paved sidewalk to see the rain garden at Lost overseeing the program, along with a special guest, will talk about habitat Valley Visitor Center. management using grazing animals to create the right structure and conditions that allow these ecosystems to 昀氀ourish. Climate Conversations Ages 14+ NEW S ERIE S SELECT TUESDAYS 7-8:30 p.m. | Lost Valley Visitor Center, Glacial Park, Ringwood Fee: R Free / NR $5 ! Join us for a new series that explores climate change and how it a昀昀ects our local area. OBSERVATIONS FROM A NATURALIST HEALTHY TREES & FORESTS CLOSE TO HOME - NORTHERN ILLINOIS May 21 Code: 9009 June 25 Code: 9225 July 16 Code: 9226 McHenry County Conservation District Linda Simko, member of Citizen's Climatologist Dr. Trent Ford will discuss Environmental Educator Kim Compton Climate Lobby (CCL) and Committee climate and climate change in northern will share her personal observations of Leader for Urban Trees, and plant Illinois, the impacts it causes and nature in our area that spans over 20 ecology researcher Catie Bullen will solutions for reducing vulnerability to years. She will share her phenology remind us of the bene昀椀ts of healthy those impacts. Ford has been the Illinois calendar and what it tells us about trees and forests. They will explain State Climatologist since 2019 and is an climate change. what threats face our forests today, expert in climate, climate change and its what can be done to combat climate interactions and impacts, especially change and help trees, and what as they relate to water. solutions are being developed. Landscapes | Summer 2024 15