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May brings warmer temperatures, spring wildflowers and a wonderful holiday: Mother’s Day. Observed on May 11 this year, we take time that day to honor and celebrate the mothers in our lives, whether our own or those who are relatives, friends and neighbors. Motherhood requires dedication, love and a lot of patience. That’s true even in the animal kingdom. Sure, there are those critters, such as frogs and turtles, who lay their eggs and hope for the best. But even that involves the mom laying eggs in the spot she things will give her offspring the best chance for survival. Other wildlife, such as many birds and mammals, raise and nurture their young until nearly adulthood. The mom, sometimes with the help of the dad, often teaches her youngsters how and where to find food and how to avoid predators. With birds, the mom or parents often teach the offspring to fly. Thanks to the efforts of LRWP staff and volunteers, wild moms settling in LRWP nature preserves have a healthy habitat in which to raise their families. In celebration of Mother Nature, here are some photos from the LRWP archive showing past moms and babies at LRWP nature preserves. Enjoy!

Photo Credit: Chuck Milledge The BioBlitz inventory of life at Eagle Marsh on May 31 provides a valuable snapshot of plant, animal and insect life at the marsh and how it is doing. The first BioBlitz identified 728 species living in the marsh. Perhaps the unusual dryness of Eagle Marsh has reduced their numbers when we sampled.” You can use that link to read the 2014 Eagle Marsh BioBlitz results.

For me, the marsh is a place where nature and spirituality intersect. In this post, I explore how time spent in the marsh can nurture the soul.   A Perspective on Change One of the attributes of the marsh is that it is never the same place twice; This makes Eagle Marsh a sacred space for me. Protecting the marsh Readers who understand my experiences here know how precious the marsh is.

They’ve found Eagle Marsh has returned their generosity. He started walking at Eagle Marsh, which is near home. “You just never know what you’re going to see,” he said of walking through the marsh. He hopes his photos help LRWP show people what’s out in the marsh. His huge collection of Eagle Marsh photos lets him revisit mornings at the marsh whenever he wants.

The floating path at Eagle Marsh lays on the ground July 18 because the water basin it once floated on With climate change causing more hot weather in summers and less frequent rains, the marsh could experience (Kevin Kilbane) For years, young children could slip on a pair of boots in the Eagle Marsh barn, grab Extremely hot, dry weather this summer and last summer have dried down Eagle Marsh. He describes Eagle Marsh as a semi-permanent wetland.  

Historic newspaper articles about the draining of the Little River Valley often refer to it as the Great Marsh Through this great marsh, many shallow but broad streams run, or rather lie, for their sluggish motion Tall prairie grass at Arrowhead Prairie again sways in the wind as it once did in the Great Marsh that The marsh was drained in the late 1880s. Native wildflowers and grasses now give visitors to Eagle Marsh a glimpse of what the Great Marsh may

If you’ve been through a wetland or even been to Eagle Marsh lately and noticed a pile of sticks in the Also, during the winter between January and March, beavers mate, with babies being born in the spring At our preserves, you would more than likely encounter a dam along one of the flowing bodies of water Join us for a Beaver Hike at Eagle Marsh on Tuesday, November 4, from 5:45 to 7:15 p.m.

While a school group was walking through the marsh, one student looked at the burnt ground and said, Who set the marsh on fire?” I laughed and said, “We did! If you’ve been by the marsh and have seen the burned areas or maybe even saw the smoke rising from Eagle Marsh last week, you are not alone. Our goal is not to burn the entire marsh; it is to create a healthier wetland, which can improve biodiversity

Site work began in 2000 on land that is now Arrowhead Marsh and Arrowhead Prairie, located on Aboite Restoration of Eagle Marsh began in 2005 and eventually included planting more than 500 acres in native LRWP staff occasionally have found native plants growing at Eagle Marsh where staff didn’t think any Animals now using Eagle Marsh, for example, include mink, otters, beavers and turtles, Cunningham said Decisions will be informed by use of historical maps and other information about what the Eagle Marsh

The first is at Eagle Marsh, on trail six where it heads directly south to meet the railroad tracks. The one time I was treated to a pair of these large and noisy birds high up in a large maple tree on One late October day I was graced with a woodcock using the trail for his/her dipsy doodle dance routine If you are fortunate enough to be at Eagle Marsh when the wind is from the south or east, the highway

Our volunteers will leave the world Eagle Marsh and our other preserves.   Sharing your unique gifts creates a world fueled by generosity, and that world is far more beautiful than one Take, for example, Eagle Marsh. And Eagle Marsh is not alone; we have five other properties that support its purpose.

Those motives can influence decision-making about what and how to protect a natural feature like Eagle Marsh Management Strategies If we apply these ways of thinking to Eagle Marsh, it becomes apparent why this A conservationist looks at Eagle Marsh through the lens of human usefulness. On the other hand, a preservationist sees Eagle Marsh's uniqueness as an ecological feature independent The focus will be on the ecosystem's spiritual and scientific values rather than social and economic ones