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...
by Tony Mancuso | Jan 18, 2019 | Living World
One Fish, Two Fish The earliest memories I have of fishing are from photographs of 2-year-old me holding a plastic rod and catching magnetic plastic fish. Click Here By Clarissa Ihssen When at last I was old enough, I would go muskie fishing in the summers with my...
by Tony Mancuso | Jan 18, 2019 | Living World
Paradise Regained By Mallory Shaw As my dad and my childhood self descend the bluff, the trees on either side of the road break and we gaze upon the vast expanse of cornfields. A tractor sits crooked, its back wheel sunk deep in the mud. A...
