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Story of the Landscape Hike at Thorn Creek Nature Center


Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2013.   In 1957 May Theilgaard Watts, naturalist at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois wrote the enchanting book Reading the Landscape. She wrote “there is good reading on the land…The records are written in the forests, in fencerows, in gardens, in tree rings.”  Join us on this fall hike to read the landscape of Thorn Creek Woods with John Yunger, professor of Ecology at Governors State University.  The Story of the Landscape Hike is for all ages Saturday, November 2 from 1 to 3 p.m.  This program is free and registration is required.  For more information or to register for this program, please call Thorn Creek Nature Center, 247 Monee Road, Park Forest at 708-747-6320.  

For more information or to register for programs, contact Thorn Creek Nature Center, 247 Monee Rd, Park Forest, 708-747-6320, email [email protected] or stop in the nature center between noon and 4 p.m. on Friday through Sunday. Three and a half miles of Thorn Creek trails are open daily from dawn to dusk.            

Trail walkers should be aware that our south bridge across Thorn Creek was badly damaged by the April storms and has been removed.   The new north bridge across Thorn Creek is open and all the trails are open.  Walkers should plan their hikes to allow for coming back around the trails to cross at the north bridge only.  There are signs and maps at the trail head. 

 


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