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		<title>Prairie Works Publishes Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prairie Works owner, Cory Ritterbusch, has published a new book:  H.S. Pepoon: Pioneer Conservationist of Northwest Illinois, is now available at many retail outlets in the Tri-State area and can be ordered here. Fans of Prairie Works should find this book very interesting. Below is it&#8217;s first review. H.S. Pepoon: Prophet and Polymath “To a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2011/08/05/prairie-works-publishes-book/</link>
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		<title>New Services for 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prairie Works is excited to announce that two new services will be added to an already diverse service list. In response to recent trends we will now be offering forest management plans and professional bird surveys. Forest Management Plans Prairie Works will provide forest management plans under a new division called Forest Works. All management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2011/02/10/new-services-for-2011/</link>
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		<title>Galena Territory Recognized as Habitat Area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Galena Territory has been honored by the National Wildlife Federation as a certified Community Wildlife Habitat. The Territory becomes the 46th designated community in the country and the first in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. The Territory earned this certification through the help of over 100 property owners who certified their personal property as habitat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2011/01/15/galena-territory-recognized-as-habitat-area/</link>
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		<title>The Red Cedar Christmas Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following article was recently published in the Freeport Journal Standard. By Cory Ritterbusch &#8211; Today, it seems that each decision that you face as a consumer is met with an option to be &#8220;green&#8221; or even greener. From our cars to our laundry detergent, no product is without providing levels towards decreasing our carbon footprint. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2010/12/16/the-red-cedar-christmas-tree/</link>
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		<title>Joe Pye &#8211; The Name Behind the Legend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in a series of blog posts called “What’s in a Name,” by my colleague Richard Pearce. After thorough research, he explains to us how plants received their common and latin names. Botanical lore and nomenclature have always been replete with inexactitudes (see for example Monkey Flower and Gooseberry in this series). But these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2010/11/15/joe-pye-the-name-behind-the-legend/</link>
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		<title>New Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are actively practicing or are planning on taking on the endeavour of planting a prairie or restoring a remnant prairie. There is a new book out to help you. Covering just about every facet of prairie re-construction and maintenance, The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2010/10/26/new-book/</link>
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		<title>H.S. Pepoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When researching the flora of Northwest Illinois there is one man&#8217;s name that repeatedly shows up: H.S. Pepoon. More well known in Chicagoland, Pepoon was a native of Northwest Illinois, was the first professional botanist to study the area&#8217;s flora and is responsible for the creation of Apple River Canyon State Park. His father, George [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2010/09/07/hs-pepoon/</link>
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		<title>Northwest Illinois Green Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Northwest Illinois Green Fair will be held on September 25th. This year it will be held at the Galena Convention Center in Galena, IL. This year marks the 3rd annual for this increasingly popular event. Again, this years fair will offer opportunities for people of all age groups and interest levels to participate. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2010/08/17/northwest-illinois-green-fair/</link>
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		<title>Prairie Works Becomes JDCF Premier Business Partner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently Prairie Works became a Premier Business Partner with the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation. Here is the press release. The Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation (JDCF) welcomes Prairie Works, Inc. as the latest local business to join its Premier Partner Program. Owned by Cory Ritterbusch, Prairie Works is the source for ecological and landscape services in Northwest Illinois. Expert staff can assist on projects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2010/07/02/prairie-works-becomes-jdcf-premier-business-partner/</link>
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		<title>Controlled Burn Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  The Spring 2010 burn season has come to an end. It was a nice diversion from the last two burn seasons that provided excessive rainfall making for tough scheduling and sub-par burn behavior. It was a rather unusual spring. It was very dry, windy and warm. In fact, it was one of the warmest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2010/04/27/controlled-burn-season/</link>
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		<title>Thoreau in Galena</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The list of historical figures that have passed through Galena, Illinois is rather impressive. Former Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln &#38; Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Susan B. Anthony, Herman Melville, and Tom Thumb, just to name a few. One person that is not often mentioned, but is held in very high esteem worldwide, is Henry David Thoreau. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2010/02/15/thoreau-in-galena/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Name? Gooseberry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series of blog posts called “What’s in a Name,” by my colleague Richard Pearce. After thoroughly researching, he explains to us how plants received their common and latin names. Let’s not quibble over words. It will be the same to me whatever name is applied. — Carl Linnaeus,  1747 In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2010/01/12/whats-in-a-name-gooseberry/</link>
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		<title>Mistletoe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nat King Cole told us &#8220;Everybody knows that turkey and some Mistletoe &#8211; Help to make the season bright.&#8221;  But, did you know that Misteltoe is a dioecious hemi-parasitic plant that can be detrimental to Spruce trees&#8230; Here is some intersting information about one of the holidays&#8217; most celebrated plants. Mistletoe, as a plant, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2009/12/20/mistletoe/</link>
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		<title>Bobcat Scratch Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the last few weeks we have been working in woodlands clearing invasive brush. This has given me the opportunity to observe them closer than I normally would during the summer months. We have noticed a substantial amount of Bobcat scratching this Fall. Kind of a Prairie Works version of Cat Scratch Fever, if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prairieworksinc.com/2009/11/24/bobcat-scratch-post/</link>
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