Beaubien Woods, IL • November 2018
Author: aea
Thornton-Lansing Woods, IL • October 2018
Fairy ponds are dry right now, but it’s full on gentian season in the oak openings!
Eggers Woods, IL • June 2018
Thornton-Lansing Woods, IL • May 2018
Sand Ridge Nature Center trails, IL • May 2018
Jack in the Pulpit is unmistakeable in the late spring.
Rather than early spring ephemerals, who bask in full sun underneath the leafless trees, plants active in the late spring enjoy the more dappled light that comes through as the tree canopy is leafing out.
Hegewisch Marsh, Chicago IL • December 2017
nice interpretive signage.
Clark and Pine, IN • December 2017
it blows my mind that in the midst of industrial development over the past century, somehow, greater than zero acres of remnant dune and swale are going strong — ‘wastelands’ between rail yards and steel mills …
Eggers Grove and Wolf Lake Overlook, IL • May 2017
forget dune and swale; I’m starting a love affair with slag prairie
Sand Ridge Preserve and Prairie, IL • March 2017
in a romance with dune and swale
burned oak savanna to the left, prairie to the right
Calumet Region Adventure Club 