CONTENTS

Plight of the Common Bird

Pulling some of our common bird species out of a nosedive.

by Arthur Melville Pearson

New Life in East Chicago

Why are wild salmon spawning in a wastewater treatment plant?
Peter Baranyai had to find out.

by Craig Vetter

Wild Fall Garden

How to leverage the transitional beauty of autumn.

by Lori Rotenberk

Ralph Frese: Urban Voyageur

Fifty years after staging his first canoe race, the outspoken
80-year-old is still championing the region's rivers.

by M.G. Bertulfo

Sex and the Prairie

The serious business of genetic viability comes down to one thing:
plant love. How bur oaks "get around" and coneflowers play the field.

by Ryan Chew