Community Corner
New T-shirts, Water Bottles Added To Forest Preserve Merchandise Line
The new shirts feature pelicans, owls and beavers. Items for sale also include hats, magnets, coffee mugs, baby onesies and bandanas.
The Forest Preserve District of Will County's online merchandise line is growing to include new T-shirt designs with expanded sizes and water bottles.
A "be a pelican not a pelican't" T-shirt is now available in heather blue. Visit the online store to order one.
The pelican T-shirt joins the other new design, "It's owl good," which comes in both a woman's cut and a unisex cut. And more Forest Preserve T-shirts are being offered in 3x sizes. Additional T-shirts feature a raccoon (stay trashy), a opossum (I fake my own death), a hummingbird (keep the drinks coming), a beaver (dam it) and a Canada goose (not all Canadians are nice).
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Also new is a teal stainless steel water bottle to keep your beverages cold while hiking Forest Preserve trails. It includes a carabiner so you can easily attach it to your bag or belt loop. Online, the water bottle can only be purchased in combination with a hummingbird shirt for a discounted price of $30. (T-shirts are $20 and the water bottle is $13 when sold separately at events.)
The merchandise lineup includes baby onesies and matching bib combo designs that say, "Keep the drinks coming" with a picture of a hummingbird and, "If I was a bird, I know who I would poop on," with an illustration of a bird on a branch.
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Other Forest Preserve items for sale online include hats, magnets with a unique nature flare and stylish bandanas. These items also are for sale at the District's six visitor centers:
- Four Rivers Environmental Education Center in Channahon
- Hidden Oaks Nature Center in Bolingbrook
- Isle a la Cache Museum in Romeoville
- Monee Reservoir in Monee Township
- Plum Creek Nature Center in Crete Township
- Sugar Creek Administration Center in Joliet
T-shirts and onesies and bibs are only available online, and a Take It Outside ceramic camping mug is only available at the visitor centers. However, all of these items are available at District events when merchandise is sold.
Not only are all items exclusive to the Forest Preserve, but all proceeds from the sales support The Nature Foundation of Will County, which helps fund a variety of initiatives for the Forest Preserve District.
Orders purchased from the online store will be shipped twice each week. For questions about orders that have been placed, email orders@fpdwc.org.
For more information on the Forest Preserve District of Will County, visit ReconnectWithNature.org.
