A restoration project cleared invasive plants from Red Gate Woods in Cook County. The landscape looks different after brush is cleared from the Red Gate Woods in the Cook County Forest Preserve’s ...

There are plenty of scenic elements in the Palos area Forest Preserves — oak savanna forests where one can see through the trees, wet lowlands leftover from ice age glaciation and ravines eroded over ...

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Take a trip to Red Gate Woods in the southwest suburbs of Chicago and there’s a thicket of soaring oak trees where the sun shines through, awakening native plants to grow. Geranium, trout lily and ...