While, I suspect, most of us were still sleeping, Pete Givan and Adele O’Dowd were out in Norwood Park leading a bird walk to do a New Year’s Day count and introducing participants to the trees in the Park.
GEICO Redevelopment Plan
Sarah Morse
The site plans for the proposed development at GEICO site include asking for a variance so that they can remove almost all the specimen sized trees on the 29 acre campus to make room for apartments and town houses. The impact to the environment of the lost of every mature shade tree cannot be overstated.
Benthic Macroinvertebrate
Sarah Morse
Yes, it was raining on Sunday, April 19. Yes, our monitoring team was on site at the Little Falls Branch to do the spring census of macroinvertibrates. Frank Sanford, team leader, conceded that it might be a monitoring first! We don’t have any photographic evidence though.