Join the Brookfield Conservation Commission and Brookfield Native Plants Club to celebrate Oaktoberfest! Registration is encouraged, walk ins welcome.
Learn about the importance of oak trees as a keystone species, and one of the world’s rarest and most endangered ecosystems: the oak savanna. Enjoy guest speakers and an oak sapling giveaway.
Presenters:
Trinity Pierce, Chicago Region Trees Initiative, "Grow Your Community Advocacy: Tree and Shrub Resources and Ways to Get Involved"
Wyatt Widmer, Brookfield Conservation Commission, Brookfield Native Plants Club, Wyatt E. Coyote Ecological Services, "Oaks: A Keystone Species"
Bridget Jakubiak, Brookfield Conservation Commission, "The History of Brookfield’s Oak Savanna"
Barb Cassidy, The Conservation Foundation, "Forest Therapy in the Brookfield Oak Savanna"
