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Back Issues of Chicago Wilderness

CW Collector’s Set
CW Collector’s Set

  * Not including Spring 1998, Winter 1998, Fall 1999, and Summer 2000, which are sold out.

Winter 2008

Summer 2008
Sounds in the Darkness — The Perfect Nature Shot — Wetland Birds Demand Change — In Their Own Backyard — Book Reviews: Untold Riches and Slaughter

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Spring 2008

Spring 2008
First Aid for the Forest — Homer Glen Sees the Light — Natural Youth — 100 Years of the Prairie Club —Shrews: 24/7 Carnivores —
Jason Pettit

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Winter 2008

10th Anniversary – Winter 2008
Where The Wild Ones Are — Favorite Photos From 10 Years — Conservation, Chicago Style — How To Enjoy Prairies, Woodlands, and Wetlands — Jack MacRae — Looking Back — 10 Years, 10 Trends

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Fall 2007

Fall 2007
Plight of the Common Bird — New Life in East Chicago — Wild Fall Garden — Ralph Frese — Sex and the Prairie — Marram Grass — Vivian Visser

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Summer 2007

Summer 2007
Leave No Soul Inside — Wolf Lake — 11 Fresh Ways to See Nature — A Tribute to Grasshoppers — Have Train, Will Travel — People: Nurture & Nature

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Spring 2007

Spring 2007
Passing the Drip Torch — Burn & Rebirth — Henry Chandler Cowles — Seeing Beyond the Bluebird’s Mirror — Festival of the Cicadas — Water: The Quality Test

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Winter 2007

Winter 2007
Thinking About Water…and Changes — Winter: A Time to Simplify — The Latest Invaders — New Roots — Expanding Horizons — Radiant Plants — Dean of the Dunes — That Winter-Lovin' Chickadee

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Fall 2006

Fall 2006
Pursuit of the Softer Path — The Chicago Wilderness Workday — The Accidental Herpetologist — Development on the Dunes — Science Roundup — Wild Weasels — Hot Rods — Sensitive Mountain Biking

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Summer 2006

Summer 2006
CW Gets a Bad Report — Prairie All Summer — The Bugs of Hyde Park — Overflow Owl Prowl — Übervolunteers — Talkin' City Nature — Orange Blossom Special — Hairstreaking

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Spring 2006

Spring 2006
Chicago Wilderness 2030 — Nature in Your Backyard — Make No Small Plans — Great Lakes, Big Stakes — Every Day in May — Woodcock Sky Dance — Making Frogs Famous

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Winter 2006

Winter 2006
The Seed Sharers — Ethereal Oaks — Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness — Going Local with the Endangered Species Act — Mary Alice Masonick's Green Sanctuary — River Otters Do the Slide

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Fall 2005

Fall 2005
Stakeout: A Tale of Two Species — Birds of the Shrublands — Long, Dry Summer — Disaster on the Fen — Apathy Canyon — Our Neighbors, the Coopers — Alice Eastman — Ladies’ Tresses Orchids

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Summer 2005

Summer 2005
Revealing Chicago — Power & Plants — Touring the Winged Gardens — Turtles Trek for Life — Black Magic — Groovy Flax — Gardeners Make Paradise from Scratch

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Spring 2005

Spring 2005
Evening the Odds — Rare Plants Rise Up — Of Cats & Birds — Natural Pest Control — Paddling Our Waterways — Peregrines in the Big City — Memories of 104th Avenue — Margined Soldier Beetle: Patrolling Our Prairies — Jack-in-the-Pulpit: Preaching the Gospel of the Forest Floor

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Winter 2005

Winter 2005
Deer and The Proxy Vote — A Brush with Nature — Finding Common Ground Between Deer and People — Gray Foxes Among the Gravestones — Winter Adventure! — Great Horned Owl: Winter Hooter — Trailing Juniper: Creeper from the North

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Fall 2004

Fall 2004
The Phantom Savanna — Growing Green Kids — The Greening of Sarah's Grove — The Lifeboat, the Milk Bottle, and the Middle Passage — Autumn in Chicago Wilderness — New England Aster — Red Velvet Mite — June & Steve Keibler

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Summer 2004

Summer 2004
Life Without Water — Birds on a Cool Green Roof — Groundswell for Groundwater — Restoring the Butterfly Tapestry — Giving a Dam for Wild Rivers — Fun in the Field from The Man on the Street (new book, Hunting for Frogs on Elston) — Meet Your Neighbors: Bobby Garro Sutton, Pied-billed Grebe, Prairie Lily, Thismia americana — Camping in Chicago Wilderness

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Spring 2004

Spring 2004
Lawn Tyranny, Home Revolution — The Native Garden Oasis — Can Hawks Save Farms? — Miles of Tiles — Bloodsucker Zen — Engagement & Hope: An Interview with William Jordan — Spring Beauty — River Redhorse — Humans

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Winter 2004

Winter 2004
People Who Are Taking Nature's Pulse — A Murder of Crows — Salt on the Earth — Solace in the Solstice — Sunny Sumac — Fermilab Grounds Crew — Downy Woodpecker — Winter Tracking

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 Fall 2003

Fall 2003
Deer: Too Much of a Good Thing? — School Gardens & Native Plants — True Colors of Fall — Wild Turkeys — Plant Detective Barbara Plampin — Sulphur Shelf — Indiana Dunes Blowout — Endangered Nesters on the Rebound

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 Summer 2003

Summer 2003
Nature in the Rough: Green Golf Courses — Regular People with a Passion for Wild Creatures — Local Hero Deb Petro — Neighbors Save an Ancient Prairie — A Deep Prairie Soul: Cindy Crosby's By Willoway Brook — Aphrodite Fritillary — Native Bees — Burn Report & Where to See Rejuvenated Prairie — Grand Illinois Trail

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 Spring 2003

Spring 2003
Spring Fashion Show: A Natural Parody – The Great Spray Debate – Spring Song at The Grove – Touching a Bird's Life – Trilliums – Batavia Plain Dirt Gardeners – Rock Bass – Field Notes: Rich Vein of Spring Migrants; Skunks Dance with Death

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 Winter 2003

Winter 2003
Big is Beautiful: The Theory of Preserve Relativity — Runaway Airport — Faith & The Ecosystem — Dave Green: Eden Place Nature Center's Piano Man — Prairie Vole — Lichens: Symbiotic Mysteries — The Past and Future of Nature: A Natural History of the Chicago Region (Book Review) — Monk Parakeets: Urban Outsiders — Lost Owls of Prairie Creek

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 Fall 2002

Fall 2002
Thinking Globally, Eating Locally: Good Food from Happy Soil — Calumet BioBlitz — Chicago's Park Revival — Discovering the Inner Naturalist — The Vision of Ecological Democracy — Gray Treefrog — Eastern Milk Snake

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Summer 2002

Summer 2002
Nature Along the Lakefront — Gypsy Moths & Bt: A Double Scourge — The Sunflower Family — The Way it Was: Presettlement Vegetation Patterns — Freshwater Mussels — Virginia Zuñiga & Teresa Medina — Edge Effect: The City Raccoon and the Country Raccoon — Citizen Science at Site 61

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Spring 2002

Spring 2002
Kids Wild About Nature — Interview, Senator Dick Durbin — Martha Carver Takes on eBay and Illegal Weeds — Unlock Your Yard: Getting Started with Native Plants — Remembering The Fox: Teacher, Friend, and Environmental Crusader — Welcome Back, Whoopers! — Judy McCarter — Hepatica

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 Winter 2002

Winter 2002
Vacant Land — Wild and Messy Geese — How to Succeed in Business and Nature — Winter in the Wilderness: A Photo Essay — Future Options: Smart Growth, or the Other Kind? — You Be the Planner — Rough Legged Hawk — Mourning Cloak — Franklin's Ground Squirrel — Mapping with GIS

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 Fall 2001

Fall 2001
Neighbors to Wilderness – Wilder Woods? – Gardening for Seeds – Post Industrial Wildlands – Marian Byrnes: The Conscience of Calumet – The Nature of Chicago Wilderness

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 Summer 2001

Summer 2001
The Bird That Captured Navy Pier — Big Votes for Green Towns — Dune Boy — Little Bugs on the Prairie — Baltimore Checkerspot — Valerie Spale — Ron Olsen — Prairie Dropseed — Invaders from Weedland

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 Spring 2001

Spring 2001
Hungry Spring Migrants — Jens Jensen — Why Kids Need Wildness — Rain Gardens — NEW: Weekend Explorer — Jerry Sullivan — Crane Futures — Bluebirds and Burning

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 Winter 2001

Winter 2001
Born-Again River: Nippersink Restoration — Wiley Neighbor — Searching for Dr. Vasey — Attracting Birds to Your Feeder — Seeding the Snow — Northern Shriek — Greg LeFevre

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 Fall 2000

Fall 2000
Pets, Pests, or Just Wild? — The Fire This Time — Windy City Wild — Donald Culross Peattie: Naturalist — A Rookery Rebounds — Lincolnshire Referendum
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 Summer 2000

Summer 2000
Classic Prairie Restorations — Treaty for Birds — Somewhere in the Wilderness, Stamen Meets Pistil — Appreciating Predators — A Plant Rescue — Where Have All the Flowers Gone? — Torkel Korling

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 Spring 2000

Spring 2000
The Chicago Wilderness Plan — A Green Vision for Chicago — Mayor Daley's "Nature Chicago" — Birds and the Habitat — Bird Monitoring Pays Off

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 Winter 2000

Winter 2000
Bambi, Beavers and Bob — Deer and the Ecosystem — 100 Years of Counting: The Christmas Bird Count — The Mingled Destinies of Beaver and People — Marsh Under Moonlight — Mighty Acorns — Palos Park Tree Body — Snow Buntings — White-Footed Mice

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 Fall 1999

Fall 1999
Wildness and Boundaries — Existential Mushrooms: The Middle Kingdom of Chicago Wilderness — Houby Hunter — Wild Mushroom Recipes — Turnstones and Me — Working the Wilderness: The Burn That Wasn't — A Shaggy Bark Story — Savanna Blazing Star — South Side Tour Guides

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 Summer 1999

Summer 1999
Nature that Depends on People — Soggy Places — Pondering Ponds — Purple Maniacs Welcome! — Butterfly Gardening: Native Attractions — Black Tern — Hine's Emerald Dragonfly — Floyd Swink — Plants of the Chicago Region

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 Spring 1999

Spring 1999
Seeing, Learning, Loving — Adverntures in the Rhizosphere: Life Underground — Missing Mushrooms — Rediscovering Nature Through the Eyes of a Baby — Digging Dirt — An Evening with Garlic Mustard — Western Chorus Frog — Skunk Cabbage — Katie Sosin

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 Winter 1999

Winter 1999
Friends of Nature — To Preserve and Protect — The Amateur and the Pro: Citizen Scientists — Charlotte and Herb Read — Dr. George Rabb — Real Mink — Local Heroes: Remembering May Watts — Return of a Native: Whooping Crane

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 Fall 1998

Fall 1998
Keeping the Home Fires Burning — Fire as a Friend — What About Bambi? — The History of Fire — Thinking Like a Seed — First Metropolis of the Future — Timeline: Chicago Wilderness — Working the Wilderness: Prairie Burn — Broad-winged Hawk — Joan Meersman — Prairie Gentian

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 Summer 1998

Summer 1998
Native Prairie — Born to Burn — Gems of the Bug World — Encountering a Prairie — Making Friends with Butterflies — Ray Schulenberg — Red Bat — Hoffman Dam River Rats — Prairie Walkingstick

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 Spring 1998

Spring 1998
Feathered Salvation — Saving Habitat for Birds — Birds and Buildings: Lethal Combo — Wilderness Walk — Into the Wild — Stream Creatures — Benthic Brain Bender — Tiger Salamander — John Rogner — Jane and John Balaban — News of the Wild — Prairie Passage — Reading Pictures: Black and White?

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 Winter 1998

Winter 1998
Fire and Ice — The Power of Ice: Trekking the Glacial Landscape — Animals in Winter — Nature's Metropolis: A View from Indiana — Peter Crane — Short-eared Owl — Michael and Amelia Howard

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 Fall 1997

Fall 1997 - Premiere Issue
What is Chicago Wilderness? Where the Wild Ones Are — Rebirth of the Oak Woods — Meet Your Neighbors — Chicago Wilderness, Chicago Renaissance?

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