The Somme Woods Earth Month Work Day on April 18 had volunteers rolling up their sleeves or foregoing sweatshirts while restoring bur oak woodlands at Northbrook Somme Prairie Grove on a sunny Tuesday.
Second from right, zone steward Eriko Kojima of Winnetka, formerly of Glenview, welcomes volunteers to the work shift at the Somme Woods Earth Month Work Day on April 18, 2023 in Northbrook at Somme Woods Forest Preserve.Ninety minutes into the three hour workday was a break. A pavilion outdoor party celebrated the decades of service by the Friends of Northbrook Forest Preserves.
According to the resolution, “Somme Prairie Grove was dedicated in 2021 by the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission as an Illinois Nature Preserve, representing one of the oldest and most comprehensive savanna and woodland restorations in the Midwest. “One of my favorite things to do as a forest preserve commissioner,” Britton said to Pioneer Press, ” ... is to do volunteer days.
Stephen Packard of Northbrook, site steward for Somme Prairie Grove, is taking cell phone images at the Somme Woods Earth Month Work Day on April 18, 2023 in Northbrook at Somme Woods Forest Preserve.Zone steward Eriko Kojima of Winnetka, formerly of Glenview, pointed out overcrowding by pole trees that adversely, “create a very dense shade,” among desired bur oaks near Dundee Road.
Bruce Gonzalez of Northbrook is a newer work day volunteer and known on the North Shore for years of management at Northbrook Sunset Foods. Gonzalez retired from Sunset Foods 18 months ago, he estimated.
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