![a group of volunteers looking at a water sample while monitoring macroinvertebrates at Deer Grove.](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/deer-grove-macroinvertebrate-monitoring-jun18-200x114.jpg)
Tag: restoration
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Sign Up for Newsletter![a group of volunteers looking at a water sample while monitoring macroinvertebrates at Deer Grove.](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/deer-grove-macroinvertebrate-monitoring-jun18-200x114.jpg)
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Eagle Scout Project Sinks PVC Pipe for Fish
![a crew assembling a bat maternity colony](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bat-condo-install-Bat-conservation-management-may15-200x114.jpg)
New Condos (With River Views) Help Bats Bounce Back
![archaeologist measuring an arrowhead](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ncrmp-archaeologist-apr15-200x114.jpg)
Twelve Fascinating Facts from the Natural & Cultural Resources Master Plan
![landscape at Bluff Spring Fen](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bluff-spring-fen-jun17-200x114.jpg)
Bluff Spring Fen Goes Platinum
![a person keeping watch over a prescribed burn](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/prescribed-burn-kelly-bougher-spring18-200x114.jpg)
Five Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Prescribed Burns
![Ribbon cutting at Orland Grassland - Left to right: Pat Hayes (Orland Grassland Volunteers), Gerald Adelmann (Openlands), Arnold Randall (FPCC), Forest Preserves Commissioner Elizabeth Gorman, Col. Christopher Drew (Army Corps), Mayor Dan McLaughlin (Village of Orland Park), Stephen Packard (founding director of Audubon Chicago Region)](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/orland-grassland-ribbon-cutting-sep14-200x114.jpg)
Orland Grassland Restoration Marks Milestone
![a prescribed burn at Crabtree Nature Center in 1974](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/crabtree-nature-center-phantom-prairie-mar74-200x114.jpg)
Centennial History Series: Early Prairie Restoration in the Forest Preserves of Cook County
![two firefighters walking toward a fire truck](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fire-training-sep13-200x114.jpg)
Ready for Wildfires
![Orland Grassland area](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/orland-grassland-south-tollway-mar09-200x114.jpg)