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Volunteer for the Outdoors

12/23/2017

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Free Event: Chicago Volunteer Expo. Sunday, February 18, 2018 | 10 AM - 4 PM | Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum: 2430 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, Illinois 60614 | view map

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Part 2. Where The Wild Things Grow: Logan Square to Forest Glen

10/2/2017

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Chicago Bike Tours with the Out Out Our Front Door Organization
Sunday October 8th 2017 9:00 am: Logan Square Monument to Forest Glen Wild Ride.
TO SAVE THE DATE: Find us on our Facebook event page @OutOurFrontDoor
​​Back from the underground to satisfy your woodland soul. Featuring: The Serbians of Sunnyday Tap, Plain and Simple Bike Rides and The House of OOFD.

For Play Study & Health: A Bike Ride from Logan Square to the North Branch Trail's Forest Glen Woods Preserve and back for a hands on experience that will literally last a lifetime.

If you ever wondered what the Chicago woods inhabit then you are cordially invited to this wild ride. Come for the camaraderie and leave with community.

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Bike Your Park Day Chicago

9/27/2017

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Explore Your State, National, or Local Park By Bike.
Saturday September 30th 2017
​The Out Our Front Door Organization is inviting the public to join a Bike Your Park Day ride on September 30, 2017 – a national event that encourages people to explore nearby parks and public lands by bicycle on the same day.

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Breaking Continents Above The Sky: Chicago Nature and Beyond

9/13/2017

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Chicago Bike Tours. History Nature and Adventure with Great Lakes Audubon
Great Marshes and Great Migrations:
Protecting and Restoring Critical Bird Habitat in the Calumet Region
By Audubon Great Lakes Conservation Science Associate​ Stephanie Beilke
​Wednesday  September 20th 
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
At HI Hostel Chicago
24 East Congress Parkway
Chicago, Illinois 60605

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Into The Pin Oaks | Clayton Smith Woods

8/28/2017

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Sunday Sept. 24th 9:00 am Logan Square to Clayton Smith Woods Wild Ride
​A Rise & Shine Morning Bike Ride featuring ecological restoration, native plant talk, stewardship, and Rabbits Bar. From Logan Square to the North Branch Trail's Clayton Smith Woods Preserve.

If you ever wondered what Chicago nature embodies then you are cordially invited. No experience needed. Come to know these grand pin oaks & their understory via a hands on experience that literally grows for a life time. Come for the camaraderie, leave with community. 

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The Nature Sanctuary Ride

8/28/2017

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Saturday September 9th 8:15 am to 2 pm | From the Plant Chicago to Burnham Nature Sanctuary Bike Ride
​A good morning inoculation with mesic rich prairies, wild sours, and ecological restoration as we bike from Plant Chicago to the Burnham Nature Sanctuary.

We will join the Burnham team to restore this hidden slice of oak savanna and mesic prairie with rich in native flora by bike! Some will collect, others will sow seed, all will come to know this beautiful 100 acre site.

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Part 1. Where The Wild: Logan Square to Forest Glen

8/28/2017

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Sunday Sept. 10th 8:45 am to 2 pm Logan Square to Forest Glen Wild Ride
From the streets and into the woods: Come satisfy your woodland soul as we tred lightly into ecological restoration for a hands on experience that will grow for a lifetime. Featuring: The House Of OOFD, Serbians of Sunnyday Tap, and The NBT Project.

A Sunday morning bike ride with the Out our Front Door Organization from the Logan Square Monument to Forest Glen Woods with bikes, ecological restoration, native plant talk, Sunnyday Tap and Drinks. 

The woods of Cook County hold more wild than we think and it is here at Forest Glen we find simple pleasures of nature. Full Details below.

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Where The Wild Things Grow -Clayton Smith Woods

7/12/2017

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Mayapple Flower & Bike Rides in Chicago
Sunday July 16th 8:30 am | Logan Square Monument | ​3150 W Logan Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
​Bike Ride, ecological restoration, native plant talk, Superdawgs and Drinks. A bike service day from Logan Square to the North Branch Trail's new Clayton Smith Woods Preserve and back. (map down below)

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Battle To The Dunes...

6/8/2017

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​Before embarking on a 120-mile round-trip bike journey from Chicago to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, The Out Our Front Door Organization led a collaborative series of events to kick start their first trip of the season. Where the public took part in a 100 year old tradition, learned the battle and struggle for a National Park which sparked a world wide movement and introduced legislation that would forever change American history, and discovered the birthplace of modern day ecology.

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BFF Movie Night: Shifting Sands

4/6/2017

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On Thursday May 18th stop in BFF Bikes for an OOFD Bike Camp Movie Night: A locally produced documentary showcasing how the historical journey of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore came to be —"Shifting Sands: On the Path to Sustainability" 
​After the film, join documentarian and Co-Producer Tom Desch for a Q&A, and check out regional bike maps & routes. Then go bike camping this season to discover first-hand about a place which exists outside all our front doors, the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

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