Adults. Gail Borden Library has enriched lives for 150 years. For even more, local oak forests have done the same. Discover how local libraries & oak forests are essential to our thriving community.

In the program we will journey through 15 ideas that highlight how local libraries and local oak forests share important traits essential to any town or city. Learn about how libraries inspire us, change us and enlarge our view of ourselves and the world while serving as a keystone to the communities we are part of. At the same time learn how oak trees and the ecosystems they support are also keystone species to these same communities, supplying us with a different type of inspiration, providing homes for local wildlife species and enriching our daily lives in ways we may not realize.

Gail Borden Library has been enriching lives for 150 years. For even more years, local oak forests have done the same. Discover 15 ideas that highlight how local libraries and oak forests are essential to our thriving community. Ed Collins, Director of Land Preservation for the McHenry County Conservation District, will discuss how they provide roots, support and inspiration, expanding our view of ourselves and the world around us.

Ed’s career spans thirty-one years with the McHenry County Conservation District where he currently serves as the Director of Land Preservation and Natural Resources, administering restoration and land preservation efforts on 25,000 acres of open space.

Saturday, September 14
10:30am – 11:30am
Main Library Meadows Community Rooms
Please register: https://attend.gailborden.info/event/10661230.