The volunteers of the Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Chicago's Lincoln Park are dedicated to maintaining, improving and creating a nature area on Chicago's lakefront. We hope to enhance this Sanctuary so that it can be home to many native species of plants and animals that would otherwise be missing from this urban environment. We also want to provide essential habitat for migrating birds to rest and feed in during their journeys. We look to diverse natural areas for our inspiration, and try to bring some of that diversity to this microcosm of nature in Chicago.
 | This project is sponsored by the Lake View Citizens Council in cooperation with the Chicago Park District. |
Names for Jarvis places?
Submitted by Terry Schilling on Thu, 2009-10-01 01:03It's been a long time coming, but I finally was able to put together an aerial map composite from several TerraServer satellite images that I had saved way back in 2002. Interestingly, they have not been updated since, although the formatting of the TerraServer web site has changed, and the scale of the current images is different. They were captured on April 10th, 2002, after the changes had been made increasing the size of the enclosed area, expanding the ponds, building the viewing platform, and putting in the new fence.
Marsh planting set for Saturday July 10th
Submitted by Terry Schilling on Fri, 2010-07-09 01:37We met the truck from Spence Restoration Nursery at Jarvis today and unloaded over 1700 plants. Most of them are destined for the marsh, a few for the ponds, and a few others for other locations. A Peoples Energy grant through the Nature Conservancy paid for most of them, with the Chicago Park District picking up the tab for the rest. So bring your trowels and tall rubber boots (or even waders) if you have them, and let's get these guys planted. This is the beginning of a whole new marsh...
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Barry Burton's Grove plans and marsh update
Submitted by Terry Schilling on Tue, 2010-04-20 11:53We had a meeting today about future work at Barry Burton's Grove. As you may or may not know, this area, between the north fence and Addison Drive is now being managed as part of the nature area. Charlotte, Cathey and I met with Zhanna Yermikov (Natural Areas Manager) and Becky Schillo (Volunteer Coordinator) of the CPD along with David Wachtel and Jason from Aramark.
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Early Spring at Jarvis
Submitted by Terry Schilling on Thu, 2010-04-08 21:06The early spring migrants are here, the bloodroot and hepatica are blooming, and it's time to think about different tasks. The garlic mustard will be tall enough to pull in a few weeks, but not this coming Saturday. We still need to remove some logs that were too big for us to handle during the last few workdays, but they may not be cut up by CPD's Forestry crews before this Saturday because of all the rain we've had. So that may have to wait another 2 weeks also.
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Winter workdays
Submitted by Terry Schilling on Sat, 2010-02-06 15:59For the last ten years, the work we've done on any day has often been decided on that particular day, or sometimes a few days in advance when we knew what people or groups were coming, or based what supplies we had. While that certainly won't change completely, there are other considerations to when we do what work.
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2010 Herbicide Training and Testing
Submitted by Terry Schilling on Sun, 2009-12-06 17:11Here's the announcement I recently received about this year's VSN sponsored herbicide training and testing. Any and all volunteers who are interested in getting licensed are encouraged to take advantage of this free workshop, and we can certainly use more licensed volunteers!
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Test Issue of Newsletter
Submitted by Terry Schilling on Thu, 2009-09-24 13:20
Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary Volunteers
test newsletter edition
Yes, we have a workday coming up Saturday, October 10.
9 am - 2 pm
Thoughts about the next ten (and more) years
Submitted by Terry Schilling on Wed, 2009-09-02 00:348 April 2010 revision
Introduction
This is the beginning of the second Ten Year Management Plan for the Sanctuary. The original one was written in 1999, so it's time to put another on to "paper". This is a work in progress, and sections are being published in no particular order. Please feel free to make suggestions by adding your comments to this piece.
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