Evanston Habitat

The Evanston Community Habitat Project is a partnership among community groups and the City of Evanston that’s working to create and enhance wildlife habitat along the North Shore Channel and in nearby parks

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Planting juneberry seedlings near the channel banks in May 2016. Seedlings were donated to Citizens’ Greener Evanston’s Natural Habitat Evanston program by the National Wildlife Federation.

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Clearing dead and invasive trees from the channel banks in the Ladd Arboretum in April 2016 to start opening spaces for more varied native plants.

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The Metropolitan Sanitary District began work on the North Shore Channel in 1907 to bring Lake Michigan water into the polluted North Branch of the Chicago River. The 8-mile channels follows the course of earlier ditches that were dug to drain wet prairie. This was what it looked like near Central Street, in 1907.

Image is from the Chicago History Museum

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Evanston’s Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary, dedicated in October 2015: one of the inspirations for work to improve bird and pollinator habitat along the North Shore Channel 2 miles to the west.