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Summer 1999 Cover

Summer 1999

 

 

 


[TEXT ARCHIVE WEB-PUBLISHED MARCH 2002.
ORIGINAL PRINT PUBLICATION DATE: SUMMER 1999.]


Nature That Depends on People
Editor's Note, by Debra Shore

Soggy Places
Plumbing the mysteries of Chicago Wilderness wetlands.
By Peter Friederici.

Pondering Ponds
Ponds are cool and wet and full of wiggles! Second graders from Palatine probing into ponds. By Catriona Tait Bowman.

Purple Maniacs Welcome!
Examine your own habitat. Would you choose Burpee, Ortho, or Chicago Wilderness? Backyard Biodiversity by Glenda Daniel and Jerry Sullivan.

Butterfly Gardening: Native Attractions
Pros from the Chicago Academy of Sciences provide the inside dope for outside success — site selection, host plants, and some surprises. Courtesy of The Chicago Academy of Sciences.

Meet your neighbors

Black Tern: A tern for the better

Hine's Emerald Dragonfly: A globally rare gem

Floyd Swink: Making fun of plants

Plants of the Chicago Region: A profoundly influential and important book

 

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