by April Wendling | Nov 8, 2023 | Living World
By Erin MinorDuring Labor Day weekend 2017, Eagle Creek Trail was busy. Located in the Columbia River Gorge just outside of Portland, Oregon, this scenic area is a popular hiking destination. The trail bustled with families hiking to the Punchbowl Falls swimming area...
by April Wendling | Oct 4, 2023 | Living World, The Human Footprint, What Lurks Beneath
By Olivia Grubisich Just below the ocean’s surface, water glows in sunlight’s embrace. Diving deeper, the seafloor slopes, a chill replacing the residual warmth of the sun. Fading from cerulean to navy, the surrounding water thickens as the ocean presses...
by April Wendling | Feb 24, 2022 | Living World
By Grace Finnell-Gudwien It was a dimly moonlit night in January 2020 when University of Illinois freshman Lauren Bartels and her sister boarded a tandem kayak in Laguna Grande, Puerto Rico, for a tour. Paddling through a canal, they saw ahead something quite...
by April Wendling | Feb 22, 2022 | Conserving Nature, Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest, Living World
By Erinn Dady One gorgeous spring day in April 2021, I shed the constraints of the pandemic and visited the Atherton Island Natural Area, a stunning wild place about 20 miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana. The occasion was a wildflower hike organized by the Ouabache...
by Tony Mancuso | Sep 4, 2020 | Living World, What Lurks Beneath
By Lindsay Albright You’re only 3 years old when you and your father pack up the car to go to the beach. You aren’t quite sure what all this talk is about surf fishing, but you will soon find out it’s a technique for catching fish by standing on the shoreline or...
by Tony Mancuso | Jan 10, 2020 | Conserving Nature, Illinois Research, Living World
By Vivienne Henning Among the dense shrubbery in a patch of prairieland in central Illinois, a sing-song warbling echoes out from the grass. Partially hidden by the branches of a bush, a bird called the Bell’s vireo energetically chatters its little song. The Bell’s...
