Administrative and Operations Initiatives Completed the preliminary design plans for the redesign of our administrative headquarters and community gathering space. Successfully completed audits for both LFOLA and the Lake Forest Land Foundation. Maintained our strong partnership with our two local financial institutions to successfully steward our operating and investment activities to their current and excellent financial position. Strategically focused our risk management efforts with both the hardware and software side of technology asset management. This year we continued to upgrade our computers and planned for a major upgrade to our CRM, human resources, and benefits administration program thanks to the Dick Family Mapping and Technology awarded grant. Land Stewardship This last year Lake Forest Open Lands has achieved significant restoration progress across all preserves through collaboration with Land Stewardship staff, multi-organizational partnerships, and ongoing volunteer support. In addition to the fine restoration work being undertaken at LFOLA, the organization has been able to resurrect varied monitoring activities and continues to build strong relationships with our dedicated volunteers and wildlife monitors. Monitoring: For the second year in a row the summer internship included rusty patched bumble bee monitoring: USGS Rapid Rusty Patched Bumble Project volunteers and our Restoration Ecology Summer Interns confirmed that the rusty patched bumble bee was found at nine of our nature preserves. A survey route was completed at Mello’s Preserve at Westfork Savanna. Our fall intern from Lake Forest College completed a round of monitoring. We continued our partnership with Jeanette Bailey who is a representative from North American Bat Monitoring: Jeanette coordinated with Land Stewardship staff to set up mist netting monitoring at Skokie River NP.
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