[BCNnet] Habitat Restoration Demonstration at Springbrook Prairie, DuPage County, November 17th

[Joe Suchecki]

Dear BCN People
   
  You are invited to attend a special habitat restoration program at Springbrook Prairie, Naperville, DuPage County, on November 17th at 9:30 am.  The main emphasis of the program will be the major stream restoration project that is about 50% complete at the site and will include a demonstration on how the new streambed is being constructed.  Staff from DuPage FPD will be there to lead the program and tour.  Since the work is in progress, you will be able to see the old channelized stream, ongoing construction, and sections of the new stream meanders.
   
  I will also be there to talk about the grassland bird populations and how the new project will improve avian habitat at the site.
   
  See the following announcement for details and RSVP.
   
  Joe Suchecki
  Site Steward and Bird Monitor
  Springbrook Prairie 
   
   
   
  Chicago Wilderness Habitat Clinic (November 17, 2007)
Springbrook Creek -Restoration Project

The Habitat Project and Volunteer Stewardship Network invite all
restoration volunteers, monitors, interpreters, advocates, and
interested members of the public to join us for this Habitat Clinic at
Springbrook Prairie Forest Preserve. In keeping with the Clinic's summer theme,
best practices, this two and half- hour-long clinic will feature on the
spot field presentations.

Springbrook Prairie, DUPAGE COUNTY, IL Saturday, November, 17th. 9:30
a.m. to noon
  
As part of ongoing restoration and habitat improvement of Springbrook
Prairie Forest Preserve, the District is in the process of building a
new meandering stream channel on approximately 2 miles of Springbrook
Creek, a tributary of the DuPage River. The primary objective is to
improve habitat, reduce bank erosion and improve water quality by
reconnecting the stream to the historic flood plain. Stream channel
design will incorporate improved fish, mollusk and macro invertebrate
habitat.

Over 20 years of USGS gage station data combined with detailed
cross-sectional and longitudinal profiles of the stream is the
scientific basis for developing dimensions, patterns and profiles for
the stream. The new stream bed is elevated to normal entrenchment
conditions and features a pool and riffle pattern. The new channel is
constructed with the use of natural materials and designed to
re-saturate a riparian wetland/floodplain zone. Construction zones will
be stabilized with native species consistent with preserve wide
restoration plans.

Project Manger and Natural Resource Management Supervisor Leslie Berns,
and Sites Stewards Joe Suchecki and Nancy Novak will discuss:
* The process of building the new stream channel
* Grassland bird usage and results from 10 years of point count
surveys.
* Volunteer restoration progress
* Restoration plans over the long term

Participants are welcome to stay for lunch afterwards and lend a hand
during the Nature Workday scheduled from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Light
refreshments will be served at noon Please register by mailing Shelley
Ancheta at sancheta at ... or by calling 847-965-9239.

Directions: From Chicago, take I290 West to I-88 West. Merge onto 355
Southbound towards Joliet. Exit on 75th street and travel west to Book
Road. Turn left on Book Road (south) to the first stop light 83rd
Street. Turn right (west) on 83rd. The main parking lot is located on
the north side of 83rd Street one-half mile west of Book Rd.




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