Cardinals Sing to Spring!
Highwood, IL–Along the Openlands Lakeshore Preserve, look for cardinals, red-wing blackbirds, and robins, among other songbirds. All sing their welcome to the warm weather.
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Openlands Lakeshore Preserve Worth The Trip
Highwood, IL– Even the view from a North Shore mansion isn’t this spectacular. Trails of the Openlands Lakeshore Preserve bridge over and through ravines and along undeveloped bluffs of Ft. Sheridan, often opening to expansive vistas overlooking Lake Michigan. Preserving and renewing this habitat for birds and native plants is the mission for the new preserve, which opened September 10. Guides were on hand to lead…
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Openlands Lakeshore Preserve Upgrades
Highwood, IL–It’s easier to walk along the Openlands Lakeshore Preserve today. Thanks to some patching and paving, the majority of the potholes and rough spots to the preserve have been fixed. Now is a great time to walk the preserve along the Bartlett Ravine in Ft. Sheridan to Lake Michigan. Wildflowers bloom, woodpeckers tap-tap for…
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Signs, Signs, Everywhere There Are Signs
Highwood, IL–Openlands has gone sign crazy at the Lakeshore Preserve. Reminds me of the 70s song: “Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. Blocking out the scenery, breakin’ my mind. Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?” There are three “don’t do this” signs posted after the welcome sign–four signs in the first few…
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Rock on! Highwood South Beach
Highwood, IL–The snow’s melting, the sky’s blue, the burn crew departed. Walk down Ft. Sheridan’s south beach in Openlands Lakeshore Preserve for signs of spring. Little shoots of green push up through the burned leaves. Water gushes in the ditch, ending in a rock waterfall into the lake. A rock fence marks the shore and stones of…