December 1, 2002
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| Greenberg reveals Chicago’s natural roots |
| A Natural History of the Chicago Region |
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If you had canoed in July of 1673 with Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, the first Europeans known to have visited the Chicago region, you would have passed through a landscape harboring a biological richness in some ways unsurpassed anywhere else on the planet. Poised on the fertile borderlands where hardwood forests met tallgrass prairies, and rivers and streams meandered through expansive wetlands and into vast lakes, the area teemed with wildlife.
In the sweeping A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Joel Greenberg takes you on a journey that begins with these European explorers and settlers and hasn't ended yet. Along the way he introduces you to the physical forces that have shaped the area from southeastern Wisconsin to northern Indiana and Berrien County in Michigan; the various habitat types present in the region and how European settlement has affected them; and the insects, reptiles and amphibians, birds, fish, and mammals found in them, then amidst the settlers and now amidst the skyscrapers. PR
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