Burn & Rebirth
Cicada Festival
Birding the Lakefront

CONTENTS

Leave No Soul Inside

Editor’s Essay.

by Don Parker

Wolf Lake

Ancient waters defy abuse to hold on to rare life.

by Greg Spyreas

11 Fresh Ways to See Nature

A checklist to make your world bigger, brighter, and wilder.

A Tribute to Grasshoppers

Hopping in a sunny grassland near you.

Poem by Mary Oliver

Have Train, Will Travel

How to visit wild places by public transit.

by Carol LaChapelle

 

Special Report

People: Nurture & Nature

Is our society becoming disconnected from nature? Will our children grow up to protect wild places?

by Katherine Millett

Summer 2007 Cover

Summer 2007 Cover

The Baltimore checkerspot butterfly exists only in the wildest fens of Chicago Wilderness. This one was catching some sun at Bluff Spring Fen in Elgin, Illinois.

Photo by Thomas Bentley.