a brisk walk at Cowles Bog (named for your hero and mine, Henry Chandler Cowles) yields early flowers and fruits in wintry landscapes.
Cowles Bog, Indiana Dunes, IN • February 2024
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Bairstow Trailhead, IN • July 2022
In the great slag reconnaissance of 2022, we finally visited a whole host of sites from the slag map for use in botanical surveys next year. This looks like a spot that has the usual suspects, and some new friends, like the woolly plantain (Plantago patagonica) – a species I haven’t noticed on slag before!
Johnson-Nelson Farmstead, IN • November 2020
An unseasonably warm day in November – still autumn leaves falling and a cold-blooded friend out and about.
Johnson-Nelson Farmstead, IN • May 2020
Headed out to pull some garlic mustard and then a take mossy retreat.
Wolf Lake South, IN • March 2020
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 …
Ivanhoe South, IN • February 2017
Shirley Heinze property and part of the most incredible dune and swale complex remaining in NW Indiana.
Miller Woods, IN • April 2016
It’s always a treat to visit here. Pannes, oaks, dunes, and views for days.
The water is high and a beaver is busy near the boardwalk across the closest wetland!
And the NPS folks don’t neglect poetry and important science.
Cowles Bog, IN • March 2014
Calumet Region Adventure Club 