Indiana forest, in autumn: worth preserving.
A new preserve near Batesville has been owned by the Dreyer family since 1819, and now it's going to be open to the public as John Sunman's Woods Nature Preserve. It was recently signed over to the Oak Heritage Conservancy.
An undiscovered 12-acre plot has become a new preserve, which will be a sanctuary for monarch butterflies.
New Bobolink Meadow Land and Water Reserve preserves 900 acres of primo habitat for grassland birds.
The Cook County Forest Preserves comprise 69,000-plus acres. WBEZ asks: Whose foresight was it?
The controlled burns help restore ecosystem health to prairie and forest reserves.
The Chicago Park District received a $900,000 grant to restore wetlands in 278-acre Big Marsh Park.
The new events will offer an after-hours peek at the woods.
Those stray dogs in Cook County could be coyotes with a disease called sarcoptic mange.
Residents concerned that planned golf development in South Shore would edge out a natural area on the site.
At 122 feet tall and almost 29 feet around, the cottonwood beat out the previous champion tree, a cypress in southern Illinois.
