About Us
Improve Quality of Life
Nature Education for All
Improve Quality of Life
The Kane Forest Preserve Foundation actively works to restore, restock, protect and preserve forest preserve lands for the education, recreation and pleasure of all who live here — people, plants and wildlife.
Restore Natural Areas
Nature Education for All
Improve Quality of Life
Less than one-tenth of one percent of the original Illinois prairie remains. The Foundation is a charitable organization that helps the Forest Preserve District of Kane County's efforts to acquire, restore and protect prairies, woodlands and s, wetlands throughout Kane County.
Nature Education for All
Nature Education for All
Nature Education for All
The Kane Forest Preserve Foundation provides leisureships so that cost isn't a barrier to kids to attending summer day camps from the Forest Preserve District of Kane County.
Ways To Help
Sponsor a Tree
Kane Native Plant Sale
Kane Native Plant Sale
Help launch the next 100 years of conservation and community by sponsoring a tree in the Centennial Grove Project at Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve! Sponsorships due 12/31/25.
See more on the Centennial page
Kane Native Plant Sale
Kane Native Plant Sale
Kane Native Plant Sale
SHOP IN-PERSON:
Saturday, April 25, 2026
9 a.m. to noon.
LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve
Creek Bend Nature Center
37W700 Dean Street, St. Charles
SHOP ONLINE:
Pre-order your plants online from Feb. 1 - April 12. Click HERE to shop online.
Browse the Kane Native Plant Sale Catalog.
EARLY BIRD TICKETS:
Purchase an early bird ticket ($15 p/person) and
SHOP IN-PERSON:
Saturday, April 25, 2026
9 a.m. to noon.
LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve
Creek Bend Nature Center
37W700 Dean Street, St. Charles
SHOP ONLINE:
Pre-order your plants online from Feb. 1 - April 12. Click HERE to shop online.
Browse the Kane Native Plant Sale Catalog.
EARLY BIRD TICKETS:
Purchase an early bird ticket ($15 p/person) and get exclusive early access from 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. to shop the in-person sale on 4/25. For more information, or to purchase tickets, click HERE.
Sponsor the Native Plant Sale!
Click HERE to view the Sponsorship Packet.
Click HERE to sponsor the 2026 Kane Native Plant Sale.
2026 Sponsors:
Gold Sponsors:
Natural Garden Natives
Bronze Sponsors:
The Haberthur Family
Becky Gillam
John Rogner
Mary and Irv Ochsenschlager
Kane Golf Outing
Kane Native Plant Sale
Kane Golf Outing
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026
Hughes Creek Golf Club
1749 Spring Valley Dr.
Elburn, IL
2026 Sponsors:
Par Sponsors:
Chick-Fil-A Elgin
Landscapes Golf Management
Contest Hole Sponsors:
Ancel Glink
V3 Companies
Hole Sponsors:
Koenig Body & Equipment
Speedwagon Capital Partners
Adopt a Turtle
Kane Native Plant Sale
Kane Golf Outing
Help endangered Blanding's turtles in the Kane County forest preserves. This program funds research, education, seasonal staff, technology, field supplies, and habitat improvements. Adopt a turtle, today!
Click HERE to adopt via credit card.
Click HERE to adopt via check.
For more information, see Adopt a Turtle.
Help Our Cause
Your support will help the Forest Preserve District of Kane County accomplish more. You may direct your gift to the following categories:
- Plant & Animal Studies
- Adopt-a-Turtle program
- Natural Areas Improvements
- Nature Program Expansion
- Unrestricted: Best Use/Greatest Need
