Category Archives: Wildlife

Chicago’s True Nature: Black History Month Event at RU on Tues 2/27

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Michael Bryson

DATE & TIME: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 4pm –6pm LOCATION: Roosevelt University Sullivan Room Auditorium Building 2nd Floor (AUD 232) 430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605 RSVP: Please register at: forestpreserves_blackhistorymonth.eventbrite.com You’re Invited to a Celebration of Black History … Continue reading →

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Wildness: Relations of People and Place

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Michael Bryson

This March saw the publication of the new book Wildness: Relations of People and Place, edited by Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017), an environmental humanities project sponsored by the Center for Humans and Nature. … Continue reading →

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City Creatures: Wildlife in the City

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Michael Bryson

Tomorrow afternoon my SUST 340 Policy, Law, & Ethics class at Roosevelt University’s Chicago Campus proudly hosts a special presentation entitled “City Creatures: Urban Biodiversity in Chicago” at 3:30 p.m. in Roosevelt’s LEED-Gold Wabash Building, Room 1214. Dr. Gavin Van … Continue reading →

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Sustainability and Biodiversity at the Field Museum

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Michael Bryson

Last Monday, as a warm 60+ degree (F) day enveloped downtown Chicago in a splendid preview of spring, my students and I hiked from Roosevelt’s Gage Building in the Loop to the lakefront, where we strolled southward to that great … Continue reading →

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Encountering the Wild: Meditations and Musings from Crested Butte, Colorado

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Michael Bryson

This past September, I joined a group of writers convened by Gavin Van Horn (of the Center for Humans and Nature in Chicago) and John Hausdoerffer (a professor at Western State Colorado University and the director of WSCU’s Headwaters Project) for a much-anticipated … Continue reading →

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Biodiversity in the News: the Practice of Biology in Modern Times

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Michael Bryson

This past week I’ve come across two fascinating and instructive news articles about biologists in NY and IL doing important research in different contexts, with instructive lessons for how we conserve biodiversity in the face of urbanization and invasive species. … Continue reading →

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Verlyn Klinkenborg Publishes Final Column for “The Rural Life” in the NY Times

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Michael Bryson

One of my favorite journalists, commentator and essayist Verlyn Klinkenborg, published the final piece for his long-running column, “The Rural Life,” in today’s New York Times. His wise and observant prose-poems about his small farm and the nature that inhabits … Continue reading →

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Spring Sparrows in Joliet

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Michael Bryson

After my sandwich break today while telecommuting from the Joliet Public Library’s Black Road Branch location, I took a postprandial stroll through the marsh at the Rock Run Forest Preserve, which is just to the west of the library. Heard … Continue reading →

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Getting the Kids Outside

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Michael Bryson

Today’s the last day of winter here in 2013. Not a bad opportunity to go outside and look around, if I can carve out some time in between helping the kids with homework after school, running errands, grading papers, and … Continue reading →

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Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge Proposal Wins Federal Approval

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Michael Bryson

This past week saw some great news this week for citizens of the greater Chicago region as well as southeast Wisconsin. The US Dept of the Interior has announced the approval of the Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge, a constellation of … Continue reading →

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