Friends of the Sangamon Valley

Volunteers have been working hard to remove exotic, invasive species as well as create rest and observation areas along the bike trail starting at the Hazel Dell parking lot and heading south. They have established an amazing number of shrubs (fragrant sumac, American cranberry, ninebark & more) as well as an impressive number of native forbs and grasses. They are…

Another productive workday for the Friends of the Sangamon Valley! Many thanks to our generous volunteers for donating their time and talents!

Here is our fall newsletter! Read about our upcoming anniversary celebration, how to deal with wintercreeper, all the people and businesses helping us, a grant we’ve been awarded, and much more! Note: the following is the PDF version of the fall newsletter. If you want to you can download the file by clicking on Download below.

The Friends of Sangamon Valley have been working to improve the Sangamon Valley environment for 25 years. To celebrate we are having an Open House at the Gudmundson Wildlife Sanctuary Saturday, October 28th, from 2:00 until 5:00pm. Come join us. There will be a warm fire, fine people and good conversations. The celebration will be held at the Gudmundson Wildlife…

We recently had a large tree at our Gudmundson Wildlife Sanctuary fall during a storm. We had been using the tree to anchor one end of a security cable we stretched across the driveway when the sanctuary was closed. Thanks to Dave Hedrick we now have a farm gate that will be as secure as the cable AND easier to…