Editor's
Note: Prairie Rex,
by Debra Shore.
Classic
Prairie Restorations
Four projects supported by hundreds of volunteers
and a few visionaries have helped restore the kind
of prairie and river woodland formerly abundant in
our area.
Treaty
for Birds
The US Fish and Wildlife Service and the City of Chicago
are helping to make the city safe for migrants.
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Lights
Out for Birds!
Skyscrapers in downtown Chicago turn off their
lights during spring and fall migrations to reduce
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PHOTO
ESSAYS
A
Plant Rescue
Volunteers gather to save native plants from the
bulldozer.
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DEPARTMENTS
Letters
from photographers: Where have all the flowers gone?
News
of the Wild
Into
the Wild
Five natural areas for you to explore in the Chicago
area: Paddling the Des Plaines River, finding leopard frogs
and toads, herons and marsh wrens, and more.
Name
That Plant — Working the wilderness: help in
identifying plants in the field.
Natural
Events — this season's highlights, July through
September.
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LOCAL
HERO
Torkel
Korling, An American Story
 Korling's
beautiful plant photographs illustrate both the plants
and key elements of their ecology. A
Korling Wildflower Portfolio — Pale
purple coneflower, wild hyacinth, Culver's root, prairie
coreopsis, showy ladyslipper, water horehound, flowering
spurge, sneezeweed, prairie white-fringed orchid,
pale spiked lobelia
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Reading
Pictures: Shrubs, by
Stephen Packard.
Parting
Shot — Predators at work in the forest preserves.
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