By Master Naturalist and JDCF volunteer, Pam Johnson In 2017 the Rusty Patched Bumblebee was placed on the Federally Endangered Species List. In 2020-2022 a group of volunteers sponsored by JDCF went out weekly during the summary to survey and see if the Rusty Patched...

“It just happened,” said Bluebird Recovery Project (BBRP) founder Joan Harmet when asked how the program she started in Jo Daviess County flourished for over 30 years. It seemed an unlikely way to describe the beginnings of a conservation success so great that it...