You know the old joke: "How do you tell a dogwood? By its bark." 🐕
This presentation on northern Illinois trees shows how you can identify many trees by their bark, but also by their shape, color, branching pattern, habitat, leaves, flowers, and fruits. 🌲🌳🎋
A close look at winter buds and twigs reveals fascinating details. Everyone loves oak trees, but do you know how to tell our state tree from the other common oaks? You will if you know the oak song 🎼🎶
Jack Shouba is a teacher, photographer, and botanist. A retired biology and chemistry teacher, he taught classes on Local Flora, Tree Identification, and other natural history and photography subjects at the Morton Arboretum for over twenty years.
Long active in conservation, he has received numerous honors, including the Dick Young Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kane-DuPage Soil and Water Conservation District and the Lucinda Muirhead Corron Award from the Corron Farm Preservation Society.
His photographs have been published in Chicago Wilderness and Outdoor Illinois magazines, and used by conservation organizations such as Save the Prairie Society, the Conservation Foundation, the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission, and Campton Township (www.campton-parks-and-openspace.com). He currently serves as a Director of Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves.
We look forward to having Jack as our featured speaker for November. Please bring any questions you may have for him.
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