Posts by Robert Kinnucan
Chicago Wilderness Conservation and Native Landscaping Award
Kinnucan was the joint recipient of the Chicago Wilderness Conservation and Native Landscaping Award given by Chicago Wilderness on November 6th at the Loyola University’s new Institute of Environmental Sustainability. The Chicago Wilderness is a regional alliance connecting people and nature. It has over 300 nonprofit and corporate council member organizations, working together to restore local nature and improving the quality of life for all living things by protecting the lands and waters. Kinnucan received this partner certificate along with the Lake Forest Country Day School Preserve, Lake Forest, IL. Read more about the Chicago Wilderness.
Kinnucan Receives Accreditation of TCIA
Kinnucan announces recent reaccreditation of our TCIA (Tree Care Industry Association). We are among a select few tree care companies in Illinois to get this status.
Kinnucan Donates Job at Lake Forest’s Elewa Farms Wildlife Discovery Center
Kinnucan donated a significant portion of the cost to build a recent Bobcat enclosure, as well as the new alligator pond at the Wildlife Discovery Center (WDC). The WDC is a living natural history museum and one of the region’s unique hidden gems. It is a place of learning and wonder, where people of all ages can explore the important concepts of wildlife conservation and environmental stewardship in an intimate setting. Stop by Elewa Farms/Wildlife Discovery Center and see why it’s called “A place where you can be with nature eye-to-eye!”
Kinnucan Contributes to Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association (GLASA)
Kinnucan was happy to be able to contribute to GLASA’s Annual Twilight Run/Walk/Roll & Post–Race Party for the 2nd time. GLASA was founded in 1999 as a non-profit, to address the needs for adaptive recreational and competitive sports programs for children & adults with physical or visual disabilities. Their motto is “Let no one sit on the sidelines”
Trees on Tap Sponsor
Kinnucan was one of the local companies to help sponsor Lake Bluff’s first “Trees on Tap” Oktoberfest benefit. This event was hosted by both the Lake Bluff Garden Club and the Lake Bluff Brewery to raise money to help village officials plant a greater variety of trees to replace those affected by Emerald Ash Borer.
Kinnucan Provides Lighting to Lake Bluff Criterium
The Village of Lake Bluff has become quite the destination to many an amateur as well as professional cyclist. For the last couple of years, the town has hosted a one-day Criterium.
(A criterium, or crit, is a bike race held on a short course – usually less than 1 mile, often run on closed-off city center streets). Among the day of racing, the village throws an all-town party, with food stalls, beer trucks and multiple bands. Kinnucan was able to help beautify the event at night by providing and installing at no charge plenty of LED lighting throughout our village green.
Kinnucan Proudly Rides in Lake Bluff 4th of July Parade
It happens every year…approximately 15,000 people line the streets of Lake Bluff to watch the Lake Bluff 4th of July Parade. Kinnucan had 2 entries – our Emerald Ash Borer “Bug Car” and our boom truck (which was used by the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Rotary Club).
Lake Forest To Begin Work On Forest Park; Kinnucan Donates Tree Pruning
Weather permitting, the renovation of Lake Forest’s Forest Park will begin quietly this week with tree pruning by Kinnucan Co., which volunteered to trim the canopies of the park’s elms, oaks, sugar maples, crabapples, hawthornes and other species.
GazeboNews checked in with Peter Gordon, City Forester, Supervisor of Parks and Forestry, for an update on the plans for Lake Forest’s oldest park:
“People will begin to see more activity at the park over the next couple of weeks, including tree trimming, tree removal and vista clearing,” said Gordon. “As a kick off to the project, Bob Kinnucan offered to have Kinnucan prune all of the trees on the tableland as a donation to the City of Lake Forest and Forest Park Project.”
Pruning will begin on Tuesday, Feb. 5, unless snow accumulation requires the Kinnucan crew to man the plows. If not Tuesday, the work will begin as soon as possible. GazeboNews reports about this more.
Ash borers well on way to costing Chicago area millions
Two years ago, officials in Tinley Park learned that the emerald ash borer was gnawing through the village’s ash trees. This winter they learned that the dime-sized beetle may also chew holes in the southwest suburb’s budget: $4 million to $6 million to cut down and replace or chemically inoculate about 9,000 trees over the next eight years. As reported in the Chicago Tribune article. “It’s basically a natural disaster you have to manage,” says forester for Naperville.
ABC News reports on widespread need for emerald ash borer control
This ABC News report explains the need for emerald ash borer control in the the Chicago land area.