Citizens for Conservation celebrates Flint Creek Savanna’s 25th anniversary

Community members of all ages gathered this month to celebrate the vision and success that is now Citizens for Conservation’s award-winning Flint Creek Savanna, a 131-acre nature preserve near Barrington that is abundant with native plant and animal life.

Restoration volunteers gathered for an appreciation breakfast before their regular workday. Village of Lake Barrington Trustee Connie Schofield read a proclamation honoring the 25th anniversary of the savanna.

Will Kruger provided folk music. CFC restoration experts Patsy Mortimer, Katherine Grover, Edith Auchter, Tom Vanderpoel, Jim Vanderpoel and Wendy Paulson gave tours.

Children’s nature crafts, animal pelts and skeletons, and a nature scavenger hunt were favorites, along with giant soap bubbles over the prairie. The afternoon ended with tales by folklore storyteller Jeannie Hanson and an unplanned flyover by Flint Creek Savanna’s resident sandhill cranes.