101816 Find Mushrooms (MA)

Connie Handel, an outdoor educator with the University of Illinois Extension, walks with a group of children and parents with the DeKalb County Home Educators group on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 at the Russell Woods Forest Preserve in Genoa. The group was out collecting mushrooms to study them under microscopes at the Natural Resource Education Center.

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George Tikkun, 7, and sister Zoe Tikkun, 10, both of DeKalb, pet TJ, a 14 year old African Sulcata tortoise at the Natural Resource Education Center on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 at the Russell Woods Forest Preserve in Genoa. The tortoise is approximately 55 pounds, but can grow up to 150 pounds and live to be 250 years old.

DeKalb County Home Educators group meetup at Russell Woods Forest Preserve