ROCKFORD — Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden recently received a $6,500 grant to provide an interpretive sign for the new Oak Grove Restoration.
Klehm received the grant from the Community Grants Program of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois with support from the Dr. Courtney J. & Margaret Hutchins Hamlin Family Fund.
Ultimately, the oak woodland restoration project, prairie restoration and the Vi Bates Wildflower Garden will be managed as a unit to emulate the prairie to oak savanna to oak woodland transition that was the predominant landscape of the Great Plains, especially in those transition zones between the vast prairies and wooded fingers of the great river systems. Interpretive signs are used throughout the grounds to highlight main points of interest.
For information: klehm.org.