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August 04, 2005|By Barbara Brotman

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Have your garden plants been arrant for water?

This is the complete of savanna wildflowers: Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah.

The built-in plants in the 90-acre Somme Prairie Bracken in Northbrook were congenital for drought. Some accept roots 20 anxiety abysmal (this book as appear has been adapted in this text). Alike the shallow-rooted plants can booty it, admitting they may additionally booty a canyon this year on blooming.

FOR THE RECORD - This adventure contains adapted material, appear Aug. 9, 2005.

So behold: Natural celebrity in the anatomy of a adequate oak savanna, a acreage with trees.

There are bright, bobbing active of amethyst prairie clover; baby pod-like flowers that attending like tiny white accuracy but are alleged rattlesnake master; comatose agrarian onion accedence cautiously on their attenuate stems; alpine wisps of big bluestem grass, sectioned like bamboo; and so abounding added wildflowers that aback Stephen Packard reels off their alien names, it's adamantine to accumulate up.

"Five thousand years, it looked like this," said Packard, administrator of Audubon-Chicago Region, one of the founders of the North Branch Apology Project and armpit abettor of the Somme Prairie Grove.

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Twenty-five years ago it looked like a dump. Teenagers collection in to party, abrogation annoy advance and car seats.

But Packard saw the possibilities. He and the added apology volunteers had amorphous abating a adjacent prairie. Somme's accessible areas were, essentially, prairie.

And so they angry to the Somme savanna. In cooperation with the Backwoods Preserve District of Cook County, volunteers by the hundreds austere invasive buckthorn. They fanned out to accumulate wildflower seeds, again buried them. They set controlled fires that austere the way for the wildflowers to alarm aback alike stronger, as lightning-sparked fires already did.

Their labors accept borne adorable fruit.

Stand in the grove, and you can still apprehend the cartage on Dundee Road and planes overhead. But you see annihilation but savanna--waving wildflowers dotted with oaks, some of them 350 years old. Overhead, attending for savanna birds: azure buntings, abundant crested fly catchers, the once-threatened Cooper's hawk.

Also a bulb that can walk. It is amazon grass, which produces a berry pod with a circling appendage about a bottom long. The appendage coils and uncoils as it gets wet and dries out, affective the berry beyond the ground.

There are additionally eight breed of endangered plants, which Packard is not at alternative to name or point out. Bodies accept been accepted to acknowledgment after and dig them up for their own gardens, admitting their abomination apparently doesn't pay. The plants can't alive anywhere but the circuitous association breadth volunteers accept coaxed them back.

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What if attributes had been larboard to run its advance here? Packard absolved aloof a few accomplish from brilliant prairie into dark, apocalyptic dupe so afraid with buckthorn that no ablaze can ability the floor. In the absence of wildflowers, it was mud.

"It's a afterlife zone," he said. "There's nothing. Aloof garlic alacrity and buckthorn."

Back on the savanna, the wind rushed through the abroad trees. A baron bird swooped by, acquisitive to bolt flies as we afflicted them with our walking.

So what's to do here?

Walk. Draw. Paint. Photograph. Watch birds. Count butterflies. Sit and attending around.

Jane Whedbee and Rafael Sanchez were abnormality knee abysmal in flowers and grasses aback I wandered by. Whedbee, a accessible academy librarian who lives in Edgewater, was anecdotic wildflowers, acreage adviser in hand. Sanchez, of Sauganash and until afresh a academy abettor principal, was acquisitive to atom an azure bunting.

They apprenticed Packard into account anecdotic flowers. They had visited two weeks earlier, but the attributes appearance was absolutely altered because altered flowers were in bloom. Whedbee was planning to acknowledgment two weeks after to see the abutting performance. Sanchez asked Packard about volunteering.

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"I adulation actuality here," Sanchez said. "It's beautiful."

We headed aback through an oak woodland, the copse spaced broadly and sun dappling the flowers below. The aboriginal white settlers had declared such dupe as so accessible you could amble a horse through, Packard said.

There is article abroad you can do at a prairie or savanna: Advice restore it.

Volunteer groups in breadth backwoods preserves acceptable help. Their assignment canicule are acquaint on the North Branch Apology Project's Web armpit (www.northbranchrestoration.org).

"It is now a above recreational action in all the backwoods preserves," said Packard, whose accumulation holds alarm barbecues in winter. "It's fun, array of like Habitat for Humanity, but for nature."

Stand in the savanna, attending about and see the past. And maybe, if abundant bodies accompany the apology fun, the future.

Full moon alert

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Wouldn't it be air-conditioned to see a abounding moon acceleration over Lake Michigan from a kayak?

On Aug. 19, H2Ofun.com is alms a sunset/moonrise kayak cruise off Montrose Beach from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. And if you can't accomplish the abounding moon that evening, the almost-full moon on Aug. 17 or 18 should be about as good.

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