The spring Wildflower Walkabout series starts on Earth Day this year! We invite you to celebrate by attending the first walkabout of the season. The location will be announced on April 1st when registration opens. Check back here for more info. Join the Natural Land...
NLI Buys Land to Help Protect Historic Beach Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve On March 17, 2026 Natural Land Institute (NLI) closed on 149 acres of land surrounding its 4-acre Beach Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve (11500 East Big Mound Rd., Davis Junction, IL 61020)...
NLI’s Legacy Tree Program NLI’s Legacy Tree Program announces the September Tree of the Month is an Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) found along the edge of a farm field in Ogle County. The Osage Orange is notable for its funny looking and large bright...
NLI’s Legacy Tree Program A Norway Spruce (Picea abies), located in White Rock Cemetery (Ogle County), is NLI’s Legacy Tree Program’s December Tree of the Month. The height is 56-feet with an average crown spread of 59-feet and circumference of 188-inches (15.6 ft.)....
Field Notes from Natural Land Institute’s Executive Director, Alan Branhagen, who visited Devil’s Backbone Preserve with other NLI staff on Dec. 19, 2023. I arrived at Devil’s Backbone before 9am and met NLI’s stewardship team: Zach Grycan, Stewardship...
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