Environment
Winter Walk at River Bend Forest Preserve
A winter walk through River Bend Forest Preserve in Mahomet on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013.
Central Illinois Daily Life Jan. 14-20, 2013
Photos from Central Illinois the week of January 14-20, 2013.
Recycle your Christmas tree
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If the needles on your Christmas tree are beginning to turn brown and litter the carpet, don’t worry—it can still find a useful home at one of the county’s forest preserves.
Ready for takeoff
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It's just past 9 a.m. on a morning so hot that the sky feels like a hand pressing down. It's already the kind of day on which Mother Nature seems to sink into a lazy stupor.
Caring for Mahomet's trees
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Though not officially designated yet as a Tree City USA, Mahomet is certainly a tree-filled community.
Therefore a recently appointed Tree Commission has been taking steps to gain Mahomet that special designation, as well as update the current ordinance and polices pertaining to tree maintenance, selection, and removal in the community.
Earth Day event planned at Lake of the Woods
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Have you ever wondered how much impact your daily life has on the environment?
Local residents will get a chance to answer that question at the first-ever “Earth Day Every Day” event at Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve next weekend.
Time for maple syrup
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On a day that seems more like the first blush of spring than winter, Roy Van Arsdall drills a 7/16ths-inch hole slantways in a sugar maple and fits a metal spout into the tree trunk. An empty milk jug with a hole cut in it fits neatly over the spout, and within seconds sap can be heard dripping against the plastic.
“It's running,” he says with a smile.
Time to undeck the halls
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Now that the holidays are over and folks are un-decking the halls, the Champa ign County Forest Preserves are again accepting used Christmas trees as part of their treecycle program, which will be used to benefit natural resources throughout preserve locations.
Pequignot honored for contributions to urban forestry
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Mahomet resident Stewart Pequignot is a firm believer in the power of trees to transform urban spaces.
“If you've ever driven through a community that doesn't have a lot of trees, and then you drive through a community that has trees, it's a striking difference,” Pequignot said.
Historic tree no match for the march of time
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The afternoon of June 6 was clear and windless. That didn’t stop a landmark Bur Oak at the corner of South Deer Run Drive and Spring Creek Drive from crashing to the ground, a victim of undetected root rot and old age.
