The Science & Natural Resource Management committee seeks to inspire diverse stakeholders to cultivate healthy communities and ecosystems through independent and synergistic effects of rigorous science and resilient land management.

Topic areas: natural resources management/restoration, science-based decision making for natural resources, urban ecosystems, volunteer stewardship, priority species (animals, plants, and fungi), oak ecosystems, and wildlife

Committee members are responsible for: 

• Volunteer Stewardship
  
• Oak Ecosystem Recovery Plan
  
• Excellence in Ecological Restoration member access only
• Grassland Bird Task Force member access only
  
• Land Management (content coming soon)
• Landowners (content coming 
• Natural Resources Management member access only
  
• Plants and Fungi member access only
  
• Wildlife member access only

Chicago Wilderness members should login to the CW Partner portal to join and participate on the committees that interest you. Not a Chicago Wilderness member? Email Laura Reilly for information about joining a committee.