Events

John Schroeder, Forest Manager for the Abbey, will be conducting a landscape scale restoration of the Abbey's streams and wetland resources. Around 200 acres of farmland will be removed from crop production over a period of 3 years and converted to native tree, shrubs, and prairie plants. The primary objective is to improve the water quality of two of  the creeks on the property, the secondary objective is to increase general wildlife populations with a focus on native pollinators, specifically monarchs and rusty patch bumblebees. By using native plants close to the creeks we hope to cool the water for fish species, and reduce the amount of pollutants entering the stream. We hope to use nature and low tech restoration methods to build "sinosity" or the meandering nature of creeks. In turn this meandering nature increases the amount of space for flooding and reduces downstream flood risk and erosion. 

 You all will get a "before" picture of the land and hopefully as we progress through the restoration you all can come back yearly to see the landscape change in real time. 

Please meet in the Abbey parking lot at 10 a.m.  Appropriate hiking gear please.

 To attend please register by email at [email protected]