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The Bobolinking Project is a part of Audubon’s TogetherGreen initiative with funding provided by Toyota.  The project’s main goal is to link young people to stewardship and ecological monitoring opportunities at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and Bartel Grassland located in Illinois. Project participants will  learn about one of the rarest of North America’s major biomes, the tallgrass prairie. At one time, tallgrass prairies dominated over 60% of the landscape in Illinois. Today, less than one hundredth of one percent of tallgrass prairie remains. This habitat is an important breeding ground for many grassland bird species which are among the fastest and most consistently declining birds in North America. A series of educational workshops and hands-on field activities will show participants what they can do – individually and together – to protect and improve the quality of this ecosystem on which people and birds depend.