Byron Generating Station contributing $10,000 to area environmental non-profits while continuing its own legacy of wildlife conservation and stewardship

Volunteers at the Byron Generating Station planted milkweed, along with warm season grasses and summer flowers, on hundreds of acres of Constellation property to restore the natural habitat for wildlife and create a sanctuary for the diminishing monarch butterfly population.

Employees and volunteers have planted hundreds of trees on nuclear plant property, milkweed plants for monarch butterflies,  cleared invasive vegetation

Constellation’s Byron Generating Station is contributing a total of $10,000 to four area environmental non-profit organizations, while its employee-led conservation club continues ecological improvements on the more than 1,700 acres of the nuclear plant’s property in northern Illinois.

The donations to groups focused on Rock River preservation and community ecological efforts, combined with station employee conservation events, is a logical pairing of business and community efforts to maintain the state’s natural resources and help combat the negative effects of climate change.

“We’ve planted milkweed along with warm season grasses and summer flowers on hundreds of acres of Constellation property to restore the natural habitat for wildlife and create a sanctuary for the diminishing monarch butterfly population,” said Byron Station employee Matt Hinkle, president of the plant’s employee conservation club.

“Our club members, employees and their families have helped with numerous projects like tree plant and invasive brush clearing to make our extended property a wonderful oasis for area wildlife.”

The $10,000 gift to area environmental non-profits will be split evenly between: