Green Wing Environmental Laboratory (15 acres; 80 miles to the east of campus) is made up of open field habitat with patchy wood lots and a stream--Iron Side Creek--and is equipped with two buildings that can accommodate college groups of about 20 persons for 1-day excursions and overnight trips.

Green Wing has two houses on site, The Lodge and Canteen. The Lodge is the largest of the two houses and has a large living room with circular fire place (for teaching, meals, and relaxing), full kitchen, men's and women's bathrooms, two bedrooms (each can sleep 3-4 adults), and a workshop/laboratory. The Canteen has two bedrooms situated with bunk bedding and each room can sleep 6 adults, for a total of 12 adults, but lacks kitchen and restroom facilities. Both buildings are heated and air conditioned as needed throughout the year. Below are pictures of each building and some building features.

Check out more photos from Green Wing Environmental Laboratory by clicking HERE.

Green Wing is adjacent to Gremel Wildlife Sanctuary (400 acres of upland forest and wetland habitats) and roughly 1 mile from Amboy Marsh Nature Preserve (a 300 acre wetland complex with black oak sand savannas, sedge meadows and dry sand prairie); both sites are owned and managed by the Illinois Audubon Society. Green Wing could serve as the home base for outdoor study, exploration, and inspiration at Gremel and Amboy Marsh.

Gremel Online Interactive Map

Click HERE for an interactive web map application for Gremel and its basic features. You may view this map on numerous devices: smartphone, tablet, and laptop/desktop computers. It is especially useful on smartphones, which can be used with the tracking feature while hiking at Gremel. Clicking on a feature, such as a meadow or road, will reveal a pop-up window that display selected properties of that feature, e.g., name, size, etc. You can also zoom in and out of the map, measure features with the measurement tool, share the map, print a PDF of the map for a hard copy, and change basemaps (such as, aerial imagery, street maps, and topographic maps).

Amboy Marsh Online Interactive Map

Click HERE for an interactive web map application for Amboy Marsh and its basic features. Like the Gremel interactive web map, you may view this map on numerous devices: smartphone, tablet, and laptop/desktop computers. It is especially useful on smartphones, which can be used with the tracking feature while hiking at Amboy Marsh. Clicking on a feature, such as a pond or road, will reveal a pop-up window that display selected properties of that feature, e.g., name, size, etc. You can also zoom in and out of the map, measure features with the measurement tool, share the map, print a PDF of the map for a hard copy, and change basemaps (such as, aerial imagery, street maps, and topographic maps).

Below are maps of Green Wing, Gremel Wildlife Sanctuary, and Amboy Marsh for download and printing.

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