1. Bluff Spring Fen - Elgin Our Forest Preserves are full of unique and wonderful natural areas…

2. Palatine Marsh - Palatine

3. Linne Woods Bike Trail – Morton Grove

4. Providing homes for wonderous wildlife... Credit: North Branch Restoration Project Smooth Green Snake Widow Skimmer Shhhh….Im hiding Red Bat on a red oak leaf

5. White-marked tussock moth caterpillar Monarch on Hemlock blossom Summer Azure on Rattlesnake Master blossom Credit: North Branch Restoration Project

6. Nature walk at Powderhorn Prairie – Southeast Chicago

7. Bunker Hill in spring - Skokie

8. Bunker Hill - Skokie

9. Bergman Slough - Palos Preserves

10. Bunker Hill in spring - Skokie

11. Somme Prairie Grove - Northbrook

12. Shoe Factory Road Hill Prairie - Hoffman Estates

13. Red headed Woodpecker Credit: Dick Todd

14. Canyon at Camp Sagawau - Lemont

15. Harms Woods Forest Preserve - Glenview

16. Dolomite Prairie, Ted Stone Forest Preserve - Hodgkins

17. Powderhorn Prairie - Chicago

18. Cranberry Slough - Palos Preserves