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June 25, 2014 (June 25, 2014)

Exploring Illinois: Ballard Nature Center

Exploring Illinois Illinois / regional new books photography travel

The Ballard Nature Center is a glimpse into what Illinois was like before the landscape gave way to cultivation for corn and soybeans. Located between Altamont and Effingham, just off […]

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June 18, 2014 (June 13, 2014)

Exploring Illinois: Little Black Slough Nature Preserve

Exploring Illinois Illinois / regional local authors photography travel

On the very the southern tip of Illinois, in the Cache River State Natural Area, you’ll find Little Black Slough Nature Preserve. Well known for its cypress-tupelo swamp, Little Black […]

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June 18, 2014 (June 18, 2014)

40% off sale on Exploring Nature in Illinois

Exploring Illinois Illinois / regional

Need some Illinois travel ideas? In Exploring Nature in Illinois: A Field Guide to the Prairie State naturalists Michael Jeffords and Susan Post explore fifty preserves, forests, restoration areas, and […]

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June 11, 2014 (June 17, 2014)

Exploring Illinois: Garden of the Gods

Exploring Illinois Illinois / regional photography travel

The Garden of the Gods Recreation Area in the Shawnee Hills is a treat for anyone with a taste for geology. The sandstone bluffs and huge boulders at Garden of […]

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June 9, 2014 (July 7, 2014)

Mushroom Monday: Mycena semivestipes

Illinois / regional Mushroom Monday new books photography

Mycena semivestipes (Peck) A.H. Smith Saprobic on the deadwood of hardwoods; causing a white rot; Usually growing in dense clusters; fall and early winter (but occasionally found in summer and […]

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June 6, 2014 (June 5, 2014)

Return of the kind mother

art biography Illinois / regional

The pre-restoration Alma Mater. Today the famed statue makes its long-awaited return to the University of Illinois campus after a ten-month restoration treatment. Though completed in 1929, the Alma Mater […]

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June 4, 2014 (June 17, 2014)

Exploring Illinois: Robert Allerton Park

Exploring Illinois Illinois / regional photography travel

Robert Allerton Park in Piatt county hosts over 1,090 species of plants and sixty species of breeding birds.  The Sangamon river floodplain is the perfect environment for a variety of […]

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May 28, 2014 (June 17, 2014)

Exploring Illinois: Apple River Canyon

Exploring Illinois Illinois / regional photography travel

Apple River Canyon State Park in northern Illinois provides the kind of topography that much of the state would seemingly lack. This Jo Daviess County nature site is featured in […]

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May 26, 2014 (May 2, 2017)

Volvariella bombycina, a silky haired and stately mushroom

Illinois / regional Mushroom Monday natural history new books photography

Volvariella bombycina (Schaeffer) Singer [The cap is] oval at first, becoming bell-shaped to broadly complex or nearly flat; whitish or tinged yellowing to brownish in age; the margin not lined; […]

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May 23, 2014 (May 22, 2014)

Fixing Illinois: steering the conversation to the future

author commentary authors Chicago Illinois / regional interviews local authors new books

In the 1950s, thriving commerce , strong leadership, and geographical good fortune made Illinois one of the most envied states in the nation. The authors of Fixing Illinois: Politics and Policy […]

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May 23, 2014 (May 2, 2017)

On Mutinus elegans, a mushroom both slightly naughty and very smelly

Illinois / regional Mushroom Monday new books photography

Mutinus elegans (Montagne) E. Fischer Usually at least partially submerged in the ground; appearing like a whitish to pinkish or purplish “egg” up to 4 cm high; when sliced, revealing […]

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May 21, 2014 (May 23, 2014)

Exploring Illinois: Mermet Lake Conservation Area

Exploring Illinois Illinois / regional new books photography travel

In Exploring Nature in Illinois: A Field Guide to the Prairie State, naturalists Michael Jeffords and Susan Post invite you to discover fifty preserves, forests, restoration areas, and parks in the […]

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