A Natural History of the Chicago Region (Center for American Places – Center Books on American Places)

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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 primary Europeans known to have visited the Chicago region—and that we’re still on lately. This can be a fascinating story, told with humor and fervour, of forests battling prairies for dominance; of grasslands plowed, wetlands drained, and species driven to extinction within the settlement of the Midwest; and of being concerned conservationists fighting to preserve and restore the local 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 the way it affects our on a regular basis existence in even probably the most urbanized landscape of Chicago.

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