Plant dig in Rockford, IL

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• To: Prairie List <prairie>
• Subject: Plant dig in Rockford, IL
• From: B* L* <b*@sinnfree.sinnfree.org>
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:05:45 -0600 (CST)

A 1.5-acre section of restored prairie near St. Anthony Hospital, 5666 E.
State St., will be plowed 
under for a medical building. Construction is expected to start the first
week of
 April. Rod Myers, a Rockford prairie activist who has been trying to
relocate plants from the building site to another spot on hospital
property, said he was
told o
n March 31 the hospital does not want the plants relocated.

 Myers said the hospital will allow people who want to save plants to use
for hom
e landscaping to  remove them from the site on Saturday, April 5, from 10
a.m. to about 2 p.m. Mye
rs said the dominant species at the site are Indian grass, compass plant
and prai
rie dock. Other species include pale purple and yellow coneflower,
culver's root,
 false sunflower, coreposis, Indian plantian and flowering spurge. The
site is at
 the southeast corner of Roxbury Road and Strathmoor. For more
information,
call Myers
 at (815) 397-8241.


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