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Enjoying Chicago Wilderness with Your Family:
An Activity Guide

Edited by Judy Pollock, National Audubon Society
Original collages and design by Liita Forsyth, Wintertree Design

This richly illustrated, full-color book is packed with kid-tested activities you can do throughout the year. In fact, each activity is coded for appropriate seasons. There are backyard and neighborhood activities like Raising Monarch Butterflies and making Insect Traps. You'll want to take a nature expedition for activities like Casting Tracks and a Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt. Adaptable for children from preschool through high school, this book will be most enjoyed when parents act as nature guides for their children.

Enjoying Chicago Wilderness with Your Family:
An Activity Guide (2008) is a publication of Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Inc. Paperback, 60 pages, Available for a suggested donation of $5 (includes shipping/handling costs). ISBN 0-9700475-0-9.

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Support for this publication was provided by the Hamill Family Foundation, USDA Forest Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and the Georgia-Pacific company.