Join NLI staff and other volunteers to help create healthy habitat at the William and Gayle Keefer Nature Reserve. The first Wednesday of the month, December 2024 – March 2025 we will host a volunteer land stewardship/restoration day here. Tasks may involve...
NLI’s Legacy Tree Program The William and Gayle Keefer Nature Reserve in Rockton, Ill., a 36-acre natural area owned by Natural Land Institute (NLI), is home to the August tree of the month: a Chinkapin Oak (Quercus muehlenbergii). The height of this...
Natural Land Institute’s Executive Director, Alan Branhagen visited our William & Gayle Keefer Nature Reserve with staff on Fri., Nov. 10, 2023. Here are his field notes from that visit. We hope you enjoy learning about this preserve. It is currently private...
In Partnership with 815 Outside A Cocoa and Company Event Sun., Jan 1, 2023 | 2:00 p.m. | FREE Start the New Year with NLI and 815 Outside as we partner to bring you a New Year’s Day Hike at the William & Gayle Keefer Nature Reserve. Bring your favorite warm...
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