Within parks, streams, and native prairies, University of Illinois Extension Master Naturalists serve as environmental stewards in their communities. Master Naturalists in west-central Illinois volunteered over 460 hours in 2023.
Tree Corps looks beyond short-term, feel-good projects. Instead, it works to build an army of community volunteers, and help them plant 100,000 trees across McLean County within a decade. That’s being tackled as 10,000 trees a year, for at least 10 years in a row.