This season at the sanctuaries (Spring 2025): learn what’s been going on behind the scenes, who you can expect to find when you visit, and how to get involved in the coming few months!
Photo by Gary Shackelford
Winter 2024
The Beatles at Goose Pond?
Stiff goldenrod was one of the plant seeds we collected. Collecting goldenrods occasions a goldenrod identification seminar that Graham and Emma conduct for the volunteers — the many species of goldenrod look similar and one species is on the “avoid” list. We certainly want to collect whatever the desired species is but we also have to avoid Canada goldenrod.
Photo by Graham Steinhauer/SoWBA
Autumn 2024
The grass is not always greener
Our recent heat wave prompted an urgent request from Graham and Emma at Goose Pond. The culver's root seed had matured much more quickly than expected and needed to be collected.
This is a seed well worth collecting. With its white plume of a blossom, culver's root is one of the most lovely and graceful plants on the prairie. Some pollinators love it including the federally-endangered Rusty Patched Bumble Bee.
Photo by Graham Steinhauer
