Archives Into the Wild

 

Print cover, Summer 2002: A light morning mist enchants a field of rattlesnake master, blazing star, and goldenrod in Spears Woods near Willow Springs. Photo by Mike MacDonald.

 

  

Summer 2002

First, Do No Harm
Editor's Note. By Debra Shore.

Nature Along the Lakefront
What is and what could be. By Cameron Davis.

Gypsy Moths and Bt:
A Double Scourge.
Bad bug. But the pesticide used to
slow it down may be worse.
By Arthur Pearson.

Butterfly Species at Risk
How to Protect Your
Yard Trees

The Sunflower Family
A new book celebrates some colorful neighbors.

Edge Effect: The City Raccoon and the Country Raccoon. By Jill Riddell.

Whoopers Return
A sleepover in Chicago Wilderness. By Karen Furnweger.

The Way it Was:
Presettlement Vegetation Patterns
Understanding nature in the past helps us protect it today. By Karen Furnweger.

Meet Your Neighbors

Freshwater Mussels: Friendly Filters

Virginia Zuñiga and
Teresa Medina
Pilsen's Pride

 


  

Departments

News of the Wild

Letters

Field Notes
The native fish at Prairie Crossing.

Natural Events
Look for bobolinks and spotted turtles in July, glass lizards in August, elderberry and gentian in late summer.

Working the Wilderness
Citizen science at Cranberry Slough Nature Preserve.

Into the WildChiwaukee Prairie, Illinois Beach State Park's North Unit, Lyons Prairie & Marsh. Plus maps and links to preserve profiles from previous issues.

Weekend Explorer
Hickory Creek Barrens
Will County, Illinois

Reading Pictures
Not too many hornworms. By Stephen Packard.