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Your donation will support 22 Projects in 2022:
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Amy Lynch
Carole Genta DaVita Mattoon Dialysis Debby and David Tolle Eric Janssen Harold and Cheryle Gambill Howell Adams Family Foundation Janice Coons Jeri Morris Jonathan Cooper Kathryn Bulver Melanie Bailey Mills Holli Phillips Marjorie Hanft Jackie Foale Denis McGeary Sherry Douglas jenny Fifer Bushur |
Larry Gutzler
Lloyd Leonard Lucinda Horton Marianne Morgan Marilyn Strangeman Marion Rohlinger Mary Jane Linton Aprile Karpus-Weddle Quinn Weddle Nolan Fogarty Richard and Barbara Funk Rosemary Buck Marla James Carnes Reuben Gearhart Maire Raven Becky Castillo Tracey Lammers Spears Debbie Ryan Bob Tompkins |
Rotary Clubs of Coles County
Roxanne and Larry Lilly Stacy and Melvin Pierce Steve Benefiel Steve and Raelyne Lane Susan Gathman Terri Fredrick Terry Weidner Virgil Butler Gary Kuhns Faith Haugh Debbie Clough Jaclyn Daum Rhonda England Katlyn Marie St. Clair Anderson Potts Anonymous ;) |
Thank you to all of our supporting donors who made contributions in 2021. Look at all the projets we accomplished below with the support of our members and donors! There is still time to donate for 2021, click here to contribute.
2021 Projects:
Douglas-Hart Nature Center
Friendship Garden
The Whiteside Garden
- Install solar panels - 100% completed
- Remove Ash trees stricken by the Emerald Ash Borer around the visitor center - Will continue into 2022
- Reopen the visitor center in spring of 2021 - Completed thanks to your support!
- Resume in person programming March 2021 - Completed!
- Restore habitat near the outdoor classroom (canopy assessment, remove several black locust trees, remove invasive plants, and plant 100+ native flora) (Thank you National Environmental Education Foundation for supporting this project along with our volunteers! Interested in helping with this project? Contact volunteer@dhnature.org) - Completed
- Plant hundreds of prairie plants in the Edge prairie (Saturday, April 24, 2021) - Rained out, but join us for another planting day! - Completed!
- Host Master Naturalist training in cooperation with the U of I Extension in fall 2021 - Completed!
- Continued habitat improvement along our East Edge/Lerna Road - Will continue into 2022
- Repair parking lot lights - Completed with the help of Coles Moultire Cooperative!
- Redo community garden beds - Moved to 2022
- Install Fiber Optic Internet - 100% completed!
Friendship Garden
- Repair and repaint garden shed - Completed!
- Install flower boxes on garden shed - Completed!
- Rebuild wishing well cover - Moved to 2022
- Install new furniture including a glider, bench, and patio set - Completed!
The Whiteside Garden
- Celebrate the grand opening of The Whiteside Garden spring 2021 - Completed!
- Complete gut and renovation of the downstairs bathroom - Completed!
- Complete gut and renovation of the upstairs bathroom to be ADA accessible - Completed! Thank you for your support!
- Develop reception area complete with gift shop - Completed!
- Develop exhibit area to include pictures, articles, exhibits, etc. - Completed!
- Replace upstairs sliding glass doors in exhibit room - Moved to 2022
- Replace basement sliding glass doors - Moved to 2022
- Develop trail map brochure - Completed!
- Develop self guided tour resources - Moved to 2022
- Develop docent and tour guide program for volunteers - Completed!