Grab your gear and get ready to explore the canals, rivers, streams and lakes in the South Shore. The South Shore has hundreds of miles of water trails and each route offers different opportunities from challenging and scenic to historic and wooded…
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Photo by Amy Nyberg I vividly remember catching my first frog. I was nine years old and was visiting my cousin who lived in rural Ohio. My cousin had just caught a toad and after many tries, I caught a frog...a real frog! (My cousin had much more experience in frog and toad catching than I, she knew full well that a dry toad was much easier to keep hold of than a slippery frog.)…
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It's early April, and any day now, the bison calves will be born. We can hardly wait to see the calves on the Kankakee Sands prairie! Bison were brought to Kankakee Sands in October of 2016 to help us manage the prairie. Since that time, they have been grazing and wallowing and doing all the great things that bison do in a prairie ecosystem…
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