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Chicago Wilderness Cover 2001
Fall 2001

Print cover, above: When all was wilderness, the red-shouldered hawk nested in open forests of bur and swamp white oak in river floodplains. Today this declining species nests in sites scattered throughout the region typicaly where floodplain forest lie near open meadows. It eats mostly rodents, snakes, and frogs. Photo by Art Morris/BIRDS AS ART

 

 

Fall 2001

Neighbors to Wilderness
Editor's Note. By Debra Shore.

Wilder Woods?

How creative people are trying to restore ancient wilderness to the oak-hickory woods.
By Kathleen Kostel.

Gardening For Seeds
Raising rare little packages of the future-how some clever people do it.
By Beverly McClellan.

Post-Industrial Wildlands
The prairie marshes of Calumet. Once they'd have been called wastelands mixed with thriving industry. But now- paradoxically-nature and the economy will need to grow together. By Jill Riddell.
 


Marian Byrnes: The Conscience of Calumet

By Arthur Melville Pearson.

 
 

Letters to the Editor

Into the WildMeacham Grove Forest Preserve, Cressmoor Prairie, Silver Creek Conservation, Wingate Prairie. Plus maps and links to preserve profiles from previous issues.

The Nature of Chicago Wilderness
An Essay by John Rogner.

  Reading Pictures
Teaching Your Eyes to See Trees. By Stephen Packard.

News of the Wild

Natural Events
This season's highlights, from The Beginning of Fall, to the Middle, to the End.

Working the Wilderness
Designing the Burn, by Joe Neumann.

Weekend Explorer
Cressmoor Prairie, Lake County, Indiana

Meet your neighbors

Waid and Tom Vanderpoel: Restorers of Lost Lands

The Oaks: family trees

 


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