The Transformation Begins!

Lizanne Gray was at Emiquon during the recent tree planting. She took these photographs that show the very beginning of the transformation that will take place over the next few years. Currently you have to look hard to find the wildlife at Emiquon. Horned Larks blend in with the brown corn stubbles that still exist in most of the vast expanse of the Emiquon Valley. But if you look hard, you will find it. And as the landscape changes, the animals will return!

 

The landscape at Emiquon is going to dramatically change over the next few decades as these trees turn into a bottom land forest.

 

 

 

 

Trees, not corn, make up this planting.

 

 

 

 

The Nature Conservancy is planting trees in the former corn fields of Emiquon.