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Print cover,
Winter 2003:
With its numbers reduced to almost nothing, the short-eared owl is expected to return as a breeding bird at five large sites envisioned in the Chicago Wilderness "Conservation Design" for grassland birds. See Big is Beautiful and Reading Pictures. Photo by Claudia Adams, Root Resources.

 

 

 

The Gifts of Nature
Editor's Note. By Debra Shore.

Big is Beautiful
The Theory of Preserve Size Relativity.
By Peter Friederici
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Runaway Airport
The strange case
of the environmental study that didn't consider the environment.
By Robert Heuer.

Faith and the Ecosystem
A new trend in "ecospirituality."
By Jean Pascual.

Book Review
The Past and Future of Nature: A Natural History of the Chicago Region, by Joel Greenberg. An epic work, 17 years in the making. Review by Kenneth S. Mierzwa.

Monk Parakeets:
Urban Outsiders

By Katherine Millett.

Meet Your Neighbors

Dave Green: Eden Place Nature Center's
Piano Man

Prairie Vole: Faithful Highway Engineer

Lichens: Symbiotic Mysteries

 

Departments

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Letters

Field Notes
New plants discovered in Kane County; Rare pondhorn mussel found

Natural Events
Noisy cardinals and evening grosbeaks; look for mounds, basswood trees, shrews, barred owls, and skunks.

Into the WildCampton Forest Preserve, Deep River County Park, Egermann Woods, and Wampum Lake Woods. Plus maps and links to preserve profiles from previous issues.

Weekend Explorer
McDonald Woods
Forest Preserve

Lake County, Illinois

Reading Pictures
The Lost Owls of Prairie Creek. By Stephen Packard.

 


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