Wanted! Dead or Dead.  Invasive Species On Your Property

West Cook Wild Ones shares information with landowners about how important their landscaping choices are. We share our ideas, skills, and knowledge with others so that their yards can be hospitable to other animals. Working together, we all can ensure the continuation of ecosystem benefits we receive from healthy, beneficial animal and plant populations.Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization.

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Learn about the invasive plant species that disrupt our natural ecosystems.

P﻿lease join us for "Wanted! Dead or Dead: Invasive Species on Your Property" with Wyatt Widmer, Preserve Steward of Wolf Road Prairie.Ever wonder-what's an invasive species and why do they get such negative attention? Can a plant really be so bad? In fact, invasive plants are the genuine badies of the conservation world. Wyatt will explain it all! Please read his description for more details.Wyatt's Words on Wanted! Dead or Dead:Your guide to understanding the concept of invasive species, what "invasive" means in context, how that changes over time and space, what invasive species you should look out for, and how you can help mitigate the spread of invasive species and their extinction-causing destruction.This virtual meeting will be held via Zoom. You will receive a link to attend two days before the meeting.

Speaker Bio:A passionate youngster who has dedicated much of my life to ecological learning, restoration, and education. I'm just some weirdo, but also I'm VP of the non-profit Save the Prairie Society, a commissioner for Brookfield IL's Conservation Commission, the youngest Forest Preserve steward in Cook County, and I run a business that makes ecological services of all kinds available to my fellow suburbans. Y﻿ou can follow Wyatt on Social Media Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wyattecoyote/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@wyattecoyote</a>. YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/coyote2welve/videos?app=desktop&view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">/coyote2welve</a>

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