Wild Ones Lake-to-Prairie Chapter presents

“Pollinators in Your Preserves: Monitoring For the Future”
Tuesday – May 6, 2025 – 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Learn about the Lake County Forest Preserve District’s Plant-Pollinator Monitoring Program.  

The Lake County Forest Preserve District ecologists began monitoring the relationships between plants and pollinators in 2023 as part of their overall ecological monitoring efforts. Learn about the Plant-Pollinator Monitoring Program. Restoration Ecologist Dan Sandacz, will share results from the first few years of the program and how preserve ecologists use the monitoring efforts to inform future restoration and conservation strategies. Native plant recommendations to support pollinator habitat will also be discussed.

Our speaker, Dan Sandacz, has a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Lawrence University and his Master of Science in Plant Biology and Conservation from Northwestern University. His background is in ecological restoration, rare plant conservation, and plant-pollinator ecology. As a Restoration Ecologist with the Lake County Forest Preserve District he manages habitat restoration projects, oversees ecological monitoring programs, and contributes to the conservation of rare plants and pollinators.

The public is invited to the monthly meetings of the Lake-to-Prairie chapter of the Wild Ones, a national not-for-profit organization that promotes the use of native plants in landscapes.  (Beginning in June, all meetings will be in-person only through the rest of the year.)

You may attend this free program in person at the Fremont Public Library, or may attend virtually/online but Registration is Required. Presented in partnership with Fremont Public Library. For details on this program, and to register, and discover more about Wild Ones go to: https://laketoprairie.wildones.org/chapter-events/