Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about MORTON ARBORETUM!
study, conservation, education, advocacy, and outreach to plant and protect
trees…
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, Illinois, is a public garden and outdoor museum . its grounds include cataloged collections of trees and other living plants . hiking trails, roadways for driving and bi the arboretum is one of the largest restored prairies in the Chicago suburban area . it offers classroom and online courses in ecological restoration techniques . its stated goal is to encourage the planting and conservation of trees . mortons daughter, Jean Cudahy (Morton) took his seat on the Board of Trustees . arboretum’s first superintendent was Clarence E. Godshalk . the estate was razed in the early 1940s following the death of Margaret Morton, wife of Joy . 1962 marked the beginning of the Schulenberg Prairie Restoration Project . Clarence Godshalk developed plans to create Ray Schulenberg wanted to turn farmland back into a prairie with seeds from prairies nearby . Schulenberg developed restoration goals and began replicating plants in local prairies . Mr. Morton’s father Julius Sterling Mort following his death in 1934, his daughter, Mrs. Jean M. Cudahy (Morton), became chairman of the board . Jean died in 1953 and her brother, Sterling, became chairman . when Sterling died in Darrel B Jackson has been chairman of the board of trustees . he served for 28 years, before he retired in 1966 . until 1990, he was replaced by Dr. Marion Trufant Hall . the library’s Suzette Morton Davidson Special Collections includes books, artwork, historic nursery catalogs, landscape drawings, photographs, letters, maps and institutional documents . the building includes wood representing the Arboretum’s