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CONTENTS
A New Day for Old Predators?
Some of the region’s predators are returning to landscapes they left more than a century ago. What does it mean for the land, and how are we adapting to them?
by Craig Vetter
Middlefork BioBlitz Revealed
Take an inside look at Lake County’s first “biodiversity blitz.”
by Sheryl DeVore, Greg Mueller, and Tom Anton
The North Shore Ravines
Exploring those mysterious wrinkles along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
by Karen Zaworski
Surveying the Survey
One of the nation’s oldest state biological surveys turns 150 this year. A look back from the outgoing chief.
by David L. Thomas
Fall 2008 Cover
An arresting sight in autumn, the marbled orb weaver spider, Araneus marmoreus, comes in several different color forms. Distributed across the northern hemisphere, this spider waits for prey at the edge of its web, sometimes under a leaf.
Photo by David Schwaegler