Source: Rockford Register Star, Sept. 19, 2020.
Natural Land Institute
Man of Many Interests has a New One: Politics
Rockford Register Star, June 30, 2019, Alex Gary.
Rockford Garden Club, 2002 – 2002 – Program Schedule
Source: Rockford Garden Club, 2001-2001 Members booklet
Natural Land Institute purchases land – 2017
Source: Rockford Register Star 8/30/2017
Natural Land Institute – Sept. 2014
All photographs by Kim Wheeler Johnsen Sept 2014
Kim Wheeler Johnsen, at Natural Land Institute
turtle
Hall Creek, Natural Land Institute
Hall Creek, Howard D. Colman Dells Nature Preserve
Natural Land Institute
2014
Source of photo: www.Facebook.com, Natural Land Institute
Nygren Wetland Preserve – 1964
“In 1964, Gov. Otto Kerner signed articles of dedication for Illinois Beach Nature Preserve, the first area to be placed in the Nature Preserves System. At right is George B. Fell, secretary of the Illinois Nature Preserves. William T. Lodge, Director of the Illinois Department of Conservation, is at left.”
Source: Northwest Quarterly magazine, Summer 2008, Vol. 5 No 2
Nygren Wetland Preserve
In 2000, Natural Land Institute purchased a 721 acre farm near Rockton
Raccoon Creek runs through property
restored to 100 acres of prairie, 150 acres of woodland, 450 acres of wetlands
Ill Dept of Natural Resources & U S Fish and Wildlife funded restoration of creek
Source: Northwest Quarterly magazine, Summer 2008, Vol 5, No 2
Nygren Wetland Preserve
Great Egret in flight
Source: Northwest Quarterly magazine, Summer 2008, Vol 4, No 2