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MISSION STATEMENT
The Environmental Action Team of Buffalo Grove strives to raise awareness, improve our
community’s natural environment and encourage sustainability practices for present and future
generations.
Buffalo Grove is in the center of Chicago Wilderness, an area surprisingly rich in diversity and native
species. Would you like to improve our local environment and meet other people with similar
interests?
If so, join the Buffalo Grove Park District Environmental Action Team. As our name implies, we are
an action team, and we are looking for new ideas to improve the environment in Buffalo Grove.
If you have questions, please contact Jeff Weiss at environmental@bgparks.org or 847.224.0965.
Summary of project that the Buffalo Grove Environmental Action Team participates in:
Fall • Traffic control at the SWANCC document destruction and electronic recycling event in September. • An Adopt-a-Highway clean-up on Deerfield Parkway in October. • A community seed collection at Mike Rylko Community Park in October.
Summer • The annual Green Fair in June - 20 exhibitors at Mike Rylko Community Park, with many informational and recycling collection booths.
Spring • Participate in the Deer Grove West Earth Day event in April. • An Adopt-a-Highway road clean-up on Deerfield Parkway in May. • A Mike Rylko Community Park Workday in May with community volunteers. Lake County Stormwater Management Commission has awarded a $500 grant for this event. • Members assist in Riverwatch testing of the health of local streams in May.
Winter • Members and volunteers from the Deer Grove East Forest Preserve process native seeds in December that were collected in the fall to be planted in Park District parks.