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In A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Joel Greenberg takes readers on a journey that begins in 1673 with Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet--the first Europeans known to have visited the Chicago region--and that we're still on today. This is a fascinating story, told with humor and passion, of forests battling prairies for dominance; of grasslands plowed, wetlands drained, and species driven to extinction in the settlement of the Midwest; and of caring conservationists fighting to preserve and restore the native plants and animals. Intermingling historical anecdotes and episodes straight from the words of early settlers and naturalists with current scientific information, Greenberg places the natural history of the region in a human context, showing how it affects our everyday existence in even the most urbanized landscape of Chicago.… (más)
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And I should see you again as I saw you, and I should love you again as I loved you . . . My thoughts are all filled with you--you who brighten my past when I look back, a past which is bright because of you and which would be dark without you--you who appear to me still young and beautiful and charming as in other ways. Philippe Regis de Trobriand, Military Life in Dakota (1951)
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To my parents--Sam (1909-91) and Miriam--to whom I owe everything. No parents could have been more supportive.
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Sometime during July 1673, seven men exploring on behalf of New France and Catholicism left the Mississippi River and proceeded up the Illinois River.
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I got weak in the knees. Oh lord, I looked at the place and saw America. I knew that this guy was able to identify America by its plants. I collapse emotionally and decided right then and there that I didn't want to live another day without knowing whether I was in America; whether I could spoil or whether I couldn't. -Gerould Wilhelm (page 33)
At degraded sites, without vegetation for shade or shelter, bullfrogs dominate and prey heavily on other species that are unable to find protective cover. In the spring of 1995, Mike Redmer found a bullfrog that had just eaten two leopard frogs. When there is a thick growth of aquatic and emergent plants, however, green frogs and leopard frogs can coexist with the bullfrogs in large numbers. And because the two smaller species mature more rapidly than the bullfrog, they can thrive where water is temporary. (page 342)
One of the strangest bits of folklore associated with any local mammal is (hopefully was) the widely held notion that the male opossum deposits his semen into the nose of the female. She then impregnates herself through sneezing. This odd belief sprung from the observation that the male has a forked penis and that the only double outlet on the female is her nose. In reality, of course, they reproduce in the same familiar way as other mammals. (page 449)
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Because the acreage is so wonderfully vast, there should be room for all.
In A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Joel Greenberg takes readers on a journey that begins in 1673 with Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet--the first Europeans known to have visited the Chicago region--and that we're still on today. This is a fascinating story, told with humor and passion, of forests battling prairies for dominance; of grasslands plowed, wetlands drained, and species driven to extinction in the settlement of the Midwest; and of caring conservationists fighting to preserve and restore the native plants and animals. Intermingling historical anecdotes and episodes straight from the words of early settlers and naturalists with current scientific information, Greenberg places the natural history of the region in a human context, showing how it affects our everyday existence in even the most urbanized landscape of Chicago.
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