Lockport Prairie and Prairie Bluff Ecosystem Restoration

Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve (Lockport, IL) and Prairie Bluff Nature Preserve (Crest Hill, IL) contain a rare ecosystem, a wet-mesic dolomite prairie. This habitat is critical to the survival of the federally endangered Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly (HED). When our team arrived on site, areas of invasive species were causing disruptions in groundwater and the functionality of aquatic ecosystems.

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