Articles filed under Kane County Forest Preserve District
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Kane County Forest Preserve District budgets for $4M in improvementsMay 10, 2023 9:22 PM - The new Kane County Forest Preserve District budget features 4.5% staff raises and $4 million in preserve enhancements and district projects.
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Kane County Forest Preserve campgrounds open May 1
Apr 25, 2023 12:19 PM - Make plans to camp within Kane County at forest preserve campgrounds. You don't have to drive far or spend a fortune to experience camping. Whether you're interested in vehicle camping, tent camping or even camping with your horses, Forest Preserve District campgrounds have sites available to meet your needs. -
Earth Day effort: Planting 500 trees in Kane County forest preserve
Apr 22, 2023 5:13 PM - Volunteers were bundled up on a chilly Earth Day to plant 500 trees Saturday at Tekakwitha Woods Forest Preserve in St. Charles. -
Birth of a trail: Different agencies team up to choose site, survey and come up with plan for new biking trail
Apr 11, 2023 6:00 AM - In 2015, the Chicago Area Mountain Bikers initially approached the Forest Preserves of Cook County about a new trail. Both had different ideas about its location. -
Birth of a Trail: Chicago Area Mountain Bikers prove reliable to help get trails built in area preserves
Apr 4, 2023 6:00 AM - Seven years, 4,000 volunteer hours and $75,000 in private funding later, over 13 miles of single track mountain biking trail officially opened in the Paul Douglas Preserve in Hoffman Estates in October 2022. Another five miles will open in 2023. -
Good News Sunday: How a lost shoe sparked a viral sensation and search in Schaumburg
Mar 19, 2023 6:00 AM - Lucas Duffy has spent only about 48 hours in Schaumburg, but village residents have made a lasting impression on him after his social media post about a lost shoe generated hundreds of responses and launched a communitywide search. -
Kane County forest preserve may once again become home to bison
Mar 16, 2023 6:24 AM - It's been 200 hundred years since bison roamed the prairies of Kane County, but a new plan to reintroduce them into a local forest preserve may turn back the clock. -
'This is the answer to climate change': How regenerative agriculture is restoring public land
Mar 15, 2023 6:24 AM - The farming and grazing practice of regenerative agriculture, heralded by environmentalists as a major solution to climate change and water issues, is a conservation alternative to conventional farming. County forest preserve and conservation districts are employing it on land they can't restore themselves yet.
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Kane County Cougars agree to pay past-due license fees to remain in Geneva stadium
Mar 14, 2023 4:29 PM - The Kane County Cougars were in danger of having their 2024 season canceled due to unpaid licensing fees to the Kane County Forest Preserve District in 2021 to lease Northwestern Medicine Field. But the team will remain in Geneva after a $321,000 settlement agreement. -
100 years and counting: Geneva grotto thrives, thanks to restoration work by local volunteers
Mar 10, 2023 6:00 AM - The efforts of a small group of volunteers have gone a long way toward restoring the 100-year-old Sacred Heart Grotto in Geneva, but more help is needed.
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