Enter Orchis:
News From Faville Grove Sanctuary
Enter Orchis brings you regular stories about natural happenings at the sanctuary, announcements of field trips, educational events, and opportunities to volunteer in the good work of ecological restoration. Past issues are archived below. To receive future issues via email, contact Lars Higdon at favillegrove@live.com. We welcome pictures, articles, and other contributions, as well as comments and address updates.
The name of the newsletter, Enter Orchis, is intended as an optimistic reprise of a heartbreaking episode in the history of Faville Grove. If you have never read Exit Orchis, Aldo Leopold’s famous essay written in 1940 as cows were about to be turned out to pasture in the Faville Grove prairie, click here. While orchids are among the most difficult of prairie plants to reestablish, working together, we hope to do just that. We only wish that Leopold and his contemporaries could be here today to see the new direction that things are heading at Faville Grove!
Stop out for a visit soon!
- April 2010 - May Day!, First Quarter Report, Future of Oak Ecosystems, Deciding What to Restore
- January 2010 - Progress in the Ledge, Why a Hunrey Planet Needs More Prairie, Internship Announcement, Sunrise Fieldtrip
- November 2009 - Year in Review, 2009 Restoration, New Land Acquisition, GHA Approved, Eagle Scout Kiosk
- September 2009 - Fall Schedule, Grant Renewed, Summer in the Sanctuary, Flood Recovery, New Signs and Map
- May 2009 - New Look, FGS Loses a Friend, Living by the Land, State Wildlife Grant, Burn Season
- Mar 2009 - March Madness, April Field Trips, Snapper Prairie Now Part Of Faville Grove
- Feb 2009 - Back to the Future, February Thaw, Book Review: The Vanishing Present
- Jan 2009 - Winter Workparties and a Field Trip, Winter Wetland Wonderland, 2009 Summer Internship Program
- Dec 2008 - Cure for Cabin Fever, Building the Future at FG, The Year Ahead at FGS, Summer Internships: Making the Difference, Volunteers Replant Charles Prairie South
- Oct 2008 - Documenting the Recovery, Upcoming Volunteers Opportunities, Extreme Make Over, Sacred Ground: Nature and Reality
- Aug 2008 - New Ecologist/Land Steward, Unnatural Natural Disaster Hits the Crawfish Prairie, TogetherGreen at FG, Audubon Adventure Days, Fall 2008 Seed Collecting
Faville Grove Sanctuary:
Preserving and restoring a diverse landscape and connecting people to the land.
