Foraging
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In Search of Green Black Walnuts
In which we forage for black walnuts in LaSalle Fish and Wildlife and encounter the ghost of the old Kankakee along the way.
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Naturalist Notebook: How do milkweed pods form?
I’ve always loved milkweeds. I remember stands of them along the Glen Elder Reservoir, spilling their fluff out into the endless Kansas wind. I don’t think I ever noticed milkweed flowers until I was a teenager prowling the woods in Ohio, homeschooled and half feral. I followed an incredible sweet, floral scent back to a…