Prairie All Summer
Bugs of Hyde Park
Overflow Owl Prowl

CONTENTS

Room for Improvement

Editor’s Essay.

By Debra Shore

Chicago Wilderness Gets a Bad Report Card

If our natural areas were students, they’d be grounded.

Prairie All Summer

Don’t turn your back on the prairie for long — it’s in constant motion.

The Bugs of Hyde Park

Open your own two eyes, and you may discover many more staring right back at you.

By Michael LaBarbera

Overflow Owl Prowl

When Wannetta Elliott arrived at the designated spot to show a few folks some owls, she found 142 people waiting for her.

By Tim Kuesel

 

Summer 2006 Cover

Summer 2006 Cover

To identify the common green darner (Anax junius), shown here on blue lobelia, hikers look for the "CBS eye" marking on its head. A strong flyer, this dragonfly lives at prairies and ponds regionwide.

Photo: Lynn M. Stone