The Land Conservancy taking nominations for Living With Trees Award

The Land Conservancy of McHenry County is taking nominations for its Living With Trees Award through Dec. 15.

The program was started to recognize those individuals, businesses, local governments and others who go above and beyond to ensure that our McHenry County community will have oaks in the future.

Award recipients include:

• Villages that have strong tree preservation rules in place to restrict the removal of mature trees and also require planting of native, mast-producing trees such as oaks and hickories.

• Individuals who have not only restored their oak woods, but have also chosen to permanently protect them with a conservation easement.

• Nurseries that have helped with the propagation (raising) of oaks that are planted as part of Project Quercus.

• An individual who worked with ComEd to get them to change their tree "trimming" practices in his village to stop the spread of disease among the cut trees.

They invite you to nominate any worthy individual, business, organization or municipality for a Living With Trees Award.

Nominations are now being accepted, with the final deadline of Monday, Dec. 15.

Go to www.conserveMC.org and click on the nomination form.

Any nominations received prior to that date will be evaluated for possible recognition at the The Land Conservancy's annual Celebration Brunch to be held Jan. 25. For questions, call Linda at (815) 337-9502.