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Your Weekly Field Report #12

Summer heatwave means a lot of watering and early morning spraying, but all the bugs and flowers are really starting to flourish!

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GET STICKBUGED

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Your weekly field report #11

Summer bugs are here! Milkweed Beetles, monarchs, and more!

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Your Weekly Field Report #10

Helped set up and take measurements for a little goldenrod experiment, tore up some RCG, butterflies are out and about, and saw our resident heron score a fish.

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Your Weekly Field Report #9

Not much to report, lots of spraying the fiend that is Purple Loosestrife, got trained to use a mini loader, moved a turtle out of the dang road, the false indigo is in full bloom

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Your Weekly Field Report #8

Finishing and sanding picnic tables and a bench slab, sooo much marsh planting, pre memorial day mowing extravaganza 🌿

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Your Weekly Field Report #7

Worked with volunteers to install a little boardwalk watered the HECK out of our park, last mad dash to spray RCG for the season, collected seeds, saw some cool bugs (American Nursery Web Spider and a Clavate Tortoise Beetle)

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🚨SEEKING PLANT ID HELP🚨

Hello plant people! We found this tiny sedge growing out in our slag meadow, and no one on staff at our park has been able to pinpoint its species!

For context: it is growing in a meadow that was used for slag dumping and has a high pH soil, similar to dolomite prairies, down in the southeast side of Chicago in the Calumet watershed.

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Your Weekly Field Report #6

So many flowers in bloom! Pulled a lot of nightshade! Lots of chipping away at various projects.

Two pairs of geese at our park have goslings 🐥 plus we spotted: bald eagles, osprey, a green heron, a solitary sandpiper, and a muskrat! All in our park!

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Field Report- Aside

Birding at Humboldt Park Lagoon

Chicago, IL, May 4th, 2025

Saw a Black Crowned Night Heron, several black and white warblers and gray catbirds. Goslings are out and about! Was approached by many water fowl seeking snacks (i had none)

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me, sticking my hand into marsh water to yoink plants out of squishy mud and hair algae: whatever, who cares!

me, when i touch a wet piece of food while washing dishes: I think its finally time to end my time on this earth

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Ok i saw a post making fun of states that have "nothing" in them or how places like the sahara have "nothing" in them and thats just! not true! wastelands are man made, both physically and conceptually. In Montana and Wyoming, there is yellowstone and the bear lodge (devils tower) bison and pronghorn and wapiti and snow capped mountains reaching into the blue sky! In South Dakota, there are Pahá Sápa (the Black Hills) and Washun Niya (wind cave) and Mako Sica (the badlands), ancient and sacred lands like nothing you've ever seen! Places like the Sahara (or any desert) are teaming with life and their own special ecosystem like any other biome, if only you take the time to look at the details. Some would describe a place like easter oregon as desolate, but slow down, and kneel, and look closely and realize all the little plants and flowers and bugs that surround you! Places only become filled with "nothing" when we make them so

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Your weekly field report #5

Yellow morels are popping up, migratory birds are arriving. Sprayed Reed Canary-Grass, made progress on the wood slab, spread lots of seeds, yoinked purple loosestrife out of the marsh.

Saw a scarlet tanager, american woodcock, and solitary sandpiper. Our resident geese of a troop of goslings

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everyone keeps telling me i dont /have/ to work on this project if i don't want to, but they don't understand that this is basically my Play Time™. Im playing with my touys

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Celebrity encounter

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Weekly Field Report 4:

Sanded picnic tables, burned piles of buckthorn, got my herbicide license.

Migratory birds are arriving

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spring guys goin CRAZY