STEWARDSHIP PROFESSIONALS SERVING THE CHICAGO SUBURBS

Maintaining landscapes with native plants requires specific training and expertise. The long-term maintenance of natural areas is a crucial factor in a project's success. Stewardship keeps a woodland from becoming a thicket of buckthorn and honeysuckle, a prairie from a field of teasel and Canadian thistle, or a wetland from a monoculture of reed canary grass, phragmites, or cattails.