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A recent study funded by The Nature Conservancy confirms a growing trend: kids are picking TV over trees. But nature—a healthy, inexpensive alternative to screen time—is filled with adventure, and can provide you and your family with the best graphics and highest resolution available.
From your own backyard to Conservancy preserves, you’ll find more realistic, more exciting and more vivid entertainment. With wetlands, forests, prairies and streams, there are thousands of acres to explore in and around Chicago.
A cluster of four prairies sits just south of Chicago—300 acres of some of the best quality grassland in the Midwest. Open for activities like hiking and bird-watching, Indian Boundary Prairies is home to more butterflies than almost any other prairie in the state, and flowers bloom April to October.
Or head a little further south to Kankakee Sands, where some 23,000 acres protected by The Nature Conservancy and partners straddle Illinois and Indiana. Take a hike—you can look for red-headed woodpeckers and northern bobwhite quails amidst the oak savannas and wildflowers.
What The Nature Conservancy is Doing.
The Nature Conservancy is working in every corner of Illinois to preserve and protect nature for people, for wildlife and for future generations. Many preserves are open to the public throughout the year; go to nature.org/iIllinois today for details and directions.
Action Starts When People Talk.
Studies showing that kids prefer television to trees are, unlike so many issues such as climate change, completely reversible. Start a conversation today with your kids, family members and friends about the natural places you can visit near your home and across Illinois—and let the adventure begin.
