The city of Elgin plans to spend about $430,000 over 10 years to restore and enhance Hawthorne Hill Nature Center’s ecological habitat.
Davey Resource Group has been tentatively hired to do the work at the 67-acre site, once a Girl Scout camp site, starting this fall. The company will be paid $24,000 in the first year, but the cost will vary in the subsequent years, officials said.
“This fall’s efforts will be primarily focused on mapping and planning to identify priority areas, with completion anticipated by the end of the year,” Elgin Parks Superintendent Greg Hulke said…