The Storms of May
July 18, 2019 6:00 pm 3 CommentsThis May saw a lot of damage to trees. Those with a weak spot sometimes shattered. ... Read More →
Author Archives for Lon Drake
About Lon Drake
This old guy's favorite large-scale conservation projects include integrating soils, water, plants, and animals, especially native species. I still bike through my South Sycamore stormwater management system from 2001.
Islands, Cores, and Corridors III: Today
July 4, 2019 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsCorridors are proving to often be more difficult to create, manage, or preserve than cores because they so often involve... Read More →
Islands, Cores, and Corridors II: 1992-1994
June 27, 2019 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsUntil 1992 there was no organized concept plan available to deal with the realities that most conservation lands were biological... Read More →
Islands, Cores, and Corridors: A History Part I
June 20, 2019 6:00 pm 3 CommentsIf you were to attend a meeting of folks whose whole career was conservation – for example at the Society... Read More →
Black Locust: A Woodland Invasive
June 13, 2019 6:00 pm 2 CommentsBlack locust is probably a native of somewhere in the Appalachians. The uncertainty is because it’s hard and heavy wood... Read More →
Requiem for a Prairie
June 6, 2019 6:00 pm 5 CommentsWhile driving the Black Diamond road on an autumn day in 1978, I noticed the color and texture of native... Read More →
Posted: No Trespassing
May 30, 2019 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsLast winter, while walking near the edge of our community woodlot, I noticed something yellow poking out of the snow.... Read More →
Creating Bobcat Habitat
May 23, 2019 6:00 pm 4 CommentsSo far, it’s been a bad news, good news story for our local bobcats. The steady loss of habitat, plus... Read More →
Our Road Ditch Cleanup
May 16, 2019 6:00 pm 4 CommentsEvery year around Earth Day I clean up our right-of-way along the Cosgrove Road, prior to mowing the ditch bottom,... Read More →
Winterburn
May 9, 2019 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsThis spring a lot of folks are still commenting about how last winter seemed especially difficult. And as the new... Read More →
