Serve the Preserves

The staff and volunteers of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County have a challenging and wonderful mission – restoring health and facilitating compatible use of 68,000 precious natural acres.

Habitat restoration is a way to manage the land to increase the number and variety of native plants and the animals that depend on them. We remove invasive alien plants that compete with native species. We collect seeds of native plants--many of which are threatened or endangered--to give them a chance to spread. And we use fire to keep invasive aliens from coming back.

Serve the Preserves

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