AUDUBON'S TOP 1O
ENDANGERED SPECIES!



ANNUAL PLANT SALE
LISTING!!
Information for ordering native plants for your landscaping projects this Spring is now available along with the order form and where to send it. We have a great variety and an early pick-up date with VERY competitive prices from our usual quality local vendor, Possibility Place (see January meeting). Plenty of time to plan: orders due in February with pick-up in June.

BARTEL GRASSLANDS?
What's Up with them??
Come on down and find out from Dick Riner, the steward of the 640 acre grassland restoration project for the past seven years, find out the sector history and how you can volunteer to help in this important project to restore habitat to it's native plants and animals. The meeting is February 1, 2012 at 7PM in the Park Forest Library.
See you there?

www.BartelGrassland.org
Visit the Website and SAVE this date MAY 20, 2012
Bartel Grassland 10th Anniversary Celebration!!

     TCAS GRANTS!
The TCAS Grants Committee provides financial support for local projects that promote environmental education and the protection and enhancement of wildlife and the environment. Grants are not to exceed $500 per program and are available to schools and local organizations. Download the 2010-11 application here and return by October 15, 2011. Questions should be directed to Bob: 708-747-2047 or Dory: 708-481-3166.

     TCAS SCHOLARSHIPS!
The TCAS Ecology Scholarship is awarded to a student or a teacher for elementary or secondary education who is interested in attending an environmental workshop or enrolling in a college credit course in environmental studies. They must be in the TCAS area and the scholarship will not exceed $500.
Submit two references, print the application and mail P.O. Box 895, Park Forest Illinois, 60466. Questions should be directed to Bob: 708-747-2047 or Dory: 708-481-3166.

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    2011-2012 FIELD TRIP SCHEDULE!!
Click here to view and download the Field Trip list. Its a doozy!!

FRIENDS OF THE KANKAKEE!
TCA GRANT DONEE SENDS THANKS.
"On June 11 we closed on the last three of a group of 39 vacant lots in Willow Estates Subdivision in NE Iroquois County plus one 4.5 acre lot nearby in Kankakee County... In the meantime, 22 more lots came on the market. We submitted a proposal for another Grant to cover 70% of the remaining lots; the FOK has to provide 30% matching funds. To insure that the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, the granting agency, was aware that we had completed the acquisitions covered in the existing grant, we gathered the necessary paperwork and wrote a final report for the completion of the 40 purchases covered by the 2010 grant....
But even more exciting than the numbers: the state-threatened ORNATE BOX TURTLES found on our Anderson Savanna can walk in an almost straight line across our holdings to Willow Slough in Indiana to look for a mate. Nearly all of the new purchases are contiguous to land we already own.
One of the new purchases is host to the state-endangered YELLOW WILD INDIGO (Baptisia tinctoria), and another has a population of an additional state-listed species, OLD PLAINSMAN (Hymenopappus scabiosaeus).
Thanks to all the generous donors who helped us with our required matching funds!" Marianne Hahn, President FOK.
For more on the FOK and this past year click HERE.

BATS! BATS! BATS!
Mark you calendar now for the Audubon Society's special presentation planned for April 4, 2012, 7PM at Freedom Hall in Park Forest. More information will come as the date approaches.