CONTENTS

Readers of the Landscape

Editor’s Essay.

By Debra Shore

The Seed Sharers

How some neighbors are restoring 400 acres of wilderness.

By Katherine Millett

Ethereal Oaks

A noted Wheaton photographer captures the iconic architecture of oaks at West Chicago Prairie.

By Miles Lowry

Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness

This winter, steep yourself in stories of intrigue, ecology, and nature’s people.

Going Local with the Endangered Species Act

How Chicago Wilderness collaborations provide a model for revising federal legislation.