An unseasonably warm day in November – still autumn leaves falling and a cold-blooded friend out and about.
winter
Wolf Lake South, IN • March 2020
126th Street, Chicago, IL • February 2020
When it’s just hanging out with itself (slag poured onto slag), the potential toxic stuff, heavy metals, etc. — it’s not going anywhere. But when ATVs ride up and down a slag heap, or when exposed slag leaches into Indian Creek, it can become a health hazard.
Vegetation can help with this!
Did I mention it’s a Superfund site?
Powderhorn, Chicago IL • January 2020
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 …
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
Thornton-Lansing Woods, IL • January 2017
Burnham Prairie, IL • March 2016
Calumet Region Adventure Club 