Featured Galleries: Celebrating 60 Years of the Schulenberg Prairie

2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the Schulenberg Prairie, a restored tallgrass prairie, located on West Side of The Morton Arboretum. Explore this gallery to learn about the development of the prairie and view stunning images of this beautiful landscape.

Coneflowers in Front of an Oak Tree

Aster at sunset

Willoway Brook in Schulenberg Prairie

First Year's Planting in Sand Barren

First Year's Prairie Planting

Ray Schulenberg Watering Prairie Seedlings

Marking Land for Transplanting

Two men planting seedlings in the prairie from board

New Prairie Plants

Sand Barren (left) and Direct Seeded Area (right)

Ray Schulenberg Weeding

Draba reptans

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Pat Armstrong in Schulenberg Prairie

Pat Armstrong teaching a class in Schulenberg Prairie

Prairie Poetry: Visions of the Past

Volunteers at work in the prairie, laying stones for path

Doug Monroe and Kurt Wolbrink performing a Prescribed Burn

Prairie Restoration Project sign at old prairie

Ray Schulenberg with prairie sign in the Schulenberg Prairie

The Schulenberg Prairie: A Benchmark in Ecological Restoration

Kim Allen monitoring soil moisture in Schulenberg Prairie

Dilip Das teaching S.T.A.R.T. class in Schulenberg Prairie

Adult Education, On the Prairie with Author Cindy Crosby

Schulenberg Prairie, wildflowers

Purple Prairie Clover and Prairie Coreopsis

Double Rainbow over the Schulenberg Prairie

Red-winged blackbird perched on Angelica atropurpurea L. (great angelica) in Schulenberg Prairie

Schulenberg Prairie Visitor Center

Rudbeckia on Trail, Habitat

Thalictrum dasycarpum (Purple Meadow Rue), infructescence

Meadow Parsnip, Flowers

Spiderwort and Compass Plant in the Schulenberg Prairie

Thirty Years of Prairie Reconstruction