Outdoor Classroom, Old Oak and Hickory woodland where the teachers used to gather switches for the unruly.
This site has experienced many changes recently. Essentially the front yard of what is now Lake Bluff Elementary School, this oak-hickory woodland had experienced dumping and massive invasion of a number of unwanted weed species. 
Two community workdays in 2003 including neighbors, school students & parents as well as LBOLA volunteers managed to completely clear the site of unwanted brush and trash. Over time, LBOLA has built a wood chip path through the woods, built an outdoor classroom, seeded natives throughout, conducted prescribed burns and it was the location of a massive Earth Day planting in 2008 including 1,000 native woodland species.
The name of the preserve itself has morphed from Sullivan Woods, to Central Woods to it’s current, and hopefully permanent name, Dwyer Woods, named after the original Lake Bluff settlement.
In addition to mature white, red and bur oaks, the site is home to many shagbark hickories, including a surprising number of rare young shagbarks, assuring a wonderful future here for one of our more hard-pressed native tree species.
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