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Taking Flight:

Taking Flight: Birding Hot Spots in Millennium Reserve Walter Marcisz walks quietly through Indian Ridge Marsh at 122nd Street and Torrence Avenue in Chicago. Suddenly, he stops and puts down a small, portable telescope through which he sees a striking scene in the marsh: three different species of ducks are swimming side-by-side. Not far from them […]

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2014 Bird Tour

What a great day Saturday was for the bird tour that the Southeast Environmental Task Force sponsored. Perfect weather, great sightings! Thank you to Walter Marcisz, local bird expert, for leading the group. The amazing results of our day were logged below by Walter. And YES!!!…..we did observe a bald eagle, who posed high in

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SETF Granted Funds Through the Millennium Reserve Project

The Southeast Environmental Task Force proudly announces that their submission was among the initial projects selected to be funded through the Millennium Reserve Project that was announced by Senator Richard Durbin and Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar on Thursday.  The twelve model projects selected to be funded under the Millennium Reserve Project were:Blue Island Rain

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