Illinois

Join Trees Forever staff for an exciting journey exploring our backyard forests as food banks and the endless possibilities for foraging your next meal. Director of Community Programs Jeff Jensen will get a little nutty talking about some nut and fruit options for landowners. Central Iowa Field Coordinator Gina Buelow will share some insights on the various mushrooms that can be grown at home. Eastern Iowa Field Coordinator Nick McGrath will share with us how he went about designing his backyard food forest. This will be an engaging "Forum" focused on options for your very own backyard.

“Big Tree Hunter” Mark Rouw is back again with an update to his popular webinar on Iowa’s largest and tallest trees from back in 2021. Mark will share with us some new finds, some new champions and tales of being a “Big Tree Hunter” in Iowa. This will be a fascinating presentation with great photos of some big trees and stories of tree hunting trips past and present.

The derecho of 2020 did unimaginable damage to our street, yard, and forest trees in a wide swath of Eastern Iowa including Cedar Rapids and surrounding communities. With all the trees that were downed it means we have holes in our forests which means more “forest edge” that is prime real estate for invasive species. The derecho is not the only driver of increased invasive species, fragmented urban woodlots tend to have a lot of invasive species problems. Learn to identify and then how to treat a wide range of forest invasive species at this webinar led by IA DNR Forest Health Specialist Tivon Feeley.

Tolif Hunt holds a BA in Conservation Biology from Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a MS in Environmental Science and Policy from Univ. of Wisconsin-Green Bay where he focused on agro-ecosystemContinue reading "Managing Natural & Restored Prairie Using Multi-layered Disturbances – Webinar"

Join Trees Forever Field Coordinator Gina Buelow as we discuss spooky topics in nature, debunk scary stories about wildlife, and explore topics in the natural world that invoke curiosity. From glow-in-the-dark mushrooms to superstitions about beetles, we look forward to treating you to a Halloween-inspired webinar.

Join Trees Forever Field Coordinator Bri Hull talking spring ephemerals. Bri is at home in the woods or in the prairie and will share information on some of the earliest bloomers of the season. We’ll do some identification and learn about some of our most beloved woodland plants.

Ryan Murphy, educator and researcher with the Urban Forestry Outreach & Research Lab in the Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota will discuss the process of wood formation and quantity of wood production in trees.

Get a full dose of Trees Forever staff talking about trees and pollinators. Trees play an important role for pollinators providing homes, food, and a social club for the world of insects where everyone can hang out. A special treat, Trees Forever Field Coordinator Karen Johlas-Szalkowski will speak about her recent trip to the mountainsContinue reading "Trees for Pollinators Webinar"

Have you ever heard of Forest Bathing? Join Trees Forever SE IA Field Coordinator Karen Szalkowski, herself a Certified Forest & Nature Therapy Guide with Forest Spirit LLC, to learnContinue reading "Forest Therapy 101 Webinar"

Join Trees Forever Field Coordinator Bri Hull to learn about seed collection and cleaning. Bri spent more than two years with the Tallgrass Prairie Center doing seed collection, cleaning, dataContinue reading "Seed Cleaning & Preserving Webinar"