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Calling all nature lovers in northern Illinois! Severson Dells Nature Center wants you to participate in a community science program. Andrea Wallace Noble is an educator and naturalist with Severson Dells. She calls the program "a broad global idea" and a says it's a partnership between the public and professionals to "observe the world around us."
Credit Connie Kuntz
Included in that "world" are bats, bluebirds, bumble bees, frogs and plants that live in Winnebago County's forest preserve system.
Noble said, "We're looking for volunteers who love nature, want to learn more and make a difference."
Though Severson Dells runs the program, there are 44 forest preserves in the Winnebago County Forest Preserve system and Noble says volunteers choose which forest preserve -- or preserves -- they want to utlize.