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Winter 1999 cover

Winter 1999

 

 

 

Winter 1999
[TEXT ARCHIVE WEB-PUBLISHED MARCH 2002.
ORIGINAL PRINT PUBLICATION DATE: WINTER 1999.]


Friends of Nature
Editor's Note, by Debra Shore

To Preserve and Protect
The Origins of the Forest Preserves.
By Stephen F. Christy, Jr.

The Amateur and the Pro
Science at the Grass Roots. By Sheryl De Vore

Meet your neighbors

Charlotte and Herb Read: Savers of the Dunes

Dr. George Rabb: Conservation ambassador from the Brookfield Zoo

Real Mink: Meet the sleek elusive mink

Local Heroes: Remembering May Watts
She signed her poems "Face the Wind." She inspired legions of nature lovers. Get to know a local hero.

Return of a Native:
Whooping Big Bird Story.

 

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Reading Pictures:
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