Friends Summer Gathering 2026: Freshwater Mussels Focus
Tuesday, June 9, 20266:30 PMMcConnell Park5200 Nippersink Dr.Richmond, IL. 60071View on Google Maps Join Friends of Hackmatack NWR for our Summer Gathering. North America’s most endangered organisms – Freshwater Mussels will be the featured wildlife of...
Spring Friends Gathering: The Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network
Tuesday, March 10, 20266:30 PMLost Valley Visitor CenterGlacial Park6310 Harts Rd.Ringwood, IL The Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network We welcome Doug Taron, Chief Curator Emeritus for the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, and Cindi Jablonski, Wildlife Ecologist for...
2025 Friends Annual Meeting
Dr. Michael Jeffords and his wife Susan, from their website: photojournalingm-s.smugmug.dom Annual Meeting 2025Tuesday, November 11, 20256:30 – 8:00 PMGlacial Park Lost Valley Visitor CenterRoute 31 & Harts Rd., Ringwood IL Come to the 2025 annual meeting...
Fall Friends Gathering: Bumblebees at Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act in 2023, the Service created a series of listed species portraits, including this one of a Rusty patched bumble bee. Artist: Cal Robinson, Public Affairs Specialist at the Service’s Sacramento...