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Eggers Woods, IL • June 2018

June 17, 2018June 30, 2020 | aea

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Thornton-Lansing Woods, IL • May 2018

May 31, 2018August 18, 2019 | aea

 

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Sand Ridge Nature Center trails, IL • May 2018

May 27, 2018April 23, 2024 | aea

Jack in the Pulpit is unmistakeable in the late spring.

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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.

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Hegewisch Marsh, Chicago IL • December 2017

January 7, 2018February 28, 2026 | aea

nice interpretive signage.

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Clark and Pine, IN • December 2017

December 18, 2017June 30, 2020 | aea

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 …

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Eggers Grove and Wolf Lake Overlook, IL • May 2017

May 31, 2017April 27, 2021 | aea

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forget dune and swale; I’m starting a love affair with slag prairie

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Sand Ridge Preserve and Prairie, IL • March 2017

March 18, 2017April 23, 2024 | aea

in a romance with dune and swale

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burned oak savanna to the left, prairie to the right
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Ivanhoe South, IN • February 2017

February 19, 2017February 26, 2017 | aea

Shirley Heinze property and part of the most incredible dune and swale complex remaining in NW Indiana.

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Park 566, IL • February 2017

February 15, 2017March 24, 2017 | aea

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