Nature
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Looking for Little Fishes and Exploring Potato Creek State Park
We had intended to head down south and check out the new trails at Fall Creek Gorge and some other natural areas around there Stuart knows. But we had several days of heavy rain and south of us in Tippecanoe County they received even more than we did. I suggested going west then, to look…
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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…