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a group of participants in the Camping Leadership Immersion Course (CLIC)

Youth Leaders: Take Your Youth Camping with CLIC

 President Preckwinkle speaks to 2019 Forest Preserve Experience graduates

Read the August Forest Way Newsletter

 A group of youth volunteers

August 2019 Volunteer Opportunities

 Leslie Gaeta standing in front of the sign at Shoe Factory Road Prairie

Meet July’s People of the Preserves

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 people at a picnic shelter

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 two girls painting a pumpkin

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 Yellow-leaved trees in autumn along the paved North Branch Trail in Miami Woods

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 a tent and campfire at dusk at Camp Bullfrog Lake

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 a group of volunteers

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 The visitors center at the Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center

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 two coyotes at Yankee Woods

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 a woman walking with her baby at LaBagh Woods

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