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AND

BOYD

INTRODUCTION.

LOVE FOR NATURE, AS DO HIS SONGWRITING

FOR WRITING

CONSERVANCY

AN ELOQUENT

FOR THEIR

AN INSPIRING IMPORTANT

EPILOGUE,

AND

IT REFLECTS HIS PASSION FOR HIS AND MUSIC.

TO ALL THE PEOPLE

AT THE NATURE

WORK.

WENDELL MINOR FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP AND FOR PAINTING A BEAUTIFUL MAP OF ILLINOIS. KAREN CLARK AND MY MOTHER, JUDY SHAW, FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND EDITING EXPERTISE.

MAEVE REILLY FOR MANY HOURS OF RESEARCH AND EDITING. LONNIE RUSSELL AND MARJORIE RUSSELL AT CACHE RIVER PRESS. CHUCK AND MARGARET HOLLOWELL FOR HELPING ME DISCOVER MANY OF NATURES SECRETS.

ERIC ANDERSON AT ILLINOIS GRAPHICS FOR HIS MUCH APPRECIATED HELP. BOB VENABLE AND MARY DEMLOW AT SCANTECH COLOR SYSTEMS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION. TIM NURNBERGER AT TIMOTHY KENT GALLERY FOR HIS HELP AND MANY YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP. JACK KAUFMANN AT IN THE GREEN PRODUCTIONS FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP AND SHARED PHILOSOPHY. DON HILLER AND CHARNELLE BRYANT AT PROLAM FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS. RICHARD

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FOR THE USE OF THEIR WRITING,

AND

FOR THE IMPORTANT

WORK

TODD RICCA AT WILDLIFE PRAIRIE PARK AND SCOTT SIMPSON AT THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT

NATURAL

THEY

THE YEARS.

RESOURCES

MARY

MCCORVIE,

WITH

THE PETROGLYPH

OF

FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE.

FOREST ARCHAEOLOGIST AT MILLSTONE

WITH

THE SHAWNEE

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NATIONAL

FOREST FOR HER HELP

SITE.

AND FOR HELPING RESEARCH THE QUOTES WE USED, THANKS GO TO... JULIE BARR AT THE DICKSON MOUNDS

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PREFACE

4 EX SIRI T 18

BRILOGUE

22

MEAP

OF

IILIGINOTS 124

THE

NATURE

CONSERVANCY

OF

ILLINOIS

125

PHOTOGRAPHIC

INFORMATION |29

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL 10

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Part

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AND

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OF MAN.

HIS WITNESSES

INDIVIDUAL... NIGHT. THE

THEY SPIRIT

OR MESSENGERS.

SO-ARE

THE

ARE PUT HERE IS WATCHING

ROCKS,

AS WITNESSES MAN

ALL OF HIS ACTIONS A KICKAPOO

THE-TIREES,

CLAN

ALWAYS

FOR THE THROUGH

ARE NOTICED? LEADER

THE

INTRODUCTION —

|__ Iuave aways BEEN IN LOVE WITH THE NATURAL

WORLD. SINCE MY FIRST WONDERING DISCOVERIES AS A CHILD GROWING UP IN ILLINOIS TO MY CHOICES OF HABITAT IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO AND THE MAGNIFICENT COAST OF MAINE, MY LIFE HAS BEEN DRIVEN BY THE NEED TO BE SURROUNDED AND IMMERSED IN THE BEAUTY OF NATURE. AS MUCH AS MUSIC, IT HAS BEEN THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF MY EXISTENCE —HAS ALWAYS PROVIDED ME SOLACE, HEALING, INSPIRATION. IN THE SILENT FOREST I FIND MY FAITH. ON THE BOUNDLESS OCEAN | AM CONTINUALLY RENEWED. MY TRAVELS HAVE TAKEN ME TO MANY CORNERS OF THIS FASCINATING PLANET BUT ALWAYS AT THE CORE OF MY APPRECIATION LIES THE SPECIAL FEELING THAT STILL LIVES IN MY DEEPEST SELF — THE LOVE OF MY NATIVE ILLINOIS. HER RIVERS AND LAKES, WOODS AND BACKLANDS, PRAIRIES AND CORNFIELDS — ALL ARE THE PLACES WHERE | FOUND AND EMBRACED MAGIC. I CAN STILL TASTE AND SMELL THE GLORIOUS CHANGING

OF HER SEASONS — FERTILE, BLACK SPRINGTIME;

LUSH, VERDANT STARK

WINTER.

ROLLING THE

HER

FACES

HILL COUNTRY

EXHILARATING

AND

MOODS

OF THE

SHORES

VARIETY OF ENVIRONMENTS.

OF

ARE AS DIVERSE

SOUTH, LAKE

SUMMER;

TO THE

MICHIGAN,

RICH

BRIGHT,

BLAZING

AS HER

ECOSYSTEMS.

FARMS

ILLINOIS

OF HER, DISPLAYS

AUTUMN FROM

HEARTLAND,

AND THE TO

A REMARKABLE

WITH LIFE

EXCEPTIONAL

DOCUMENTING

A DEEP

LOVE

FOR

HASSEROVIDED THROUGH OF THE CARE

LAND

AND

CRrHOv

WONDER

HIS SUBJECT

OF

OF LINCOLN.

LOOKED

WORDS,

CELEBRATE OUP

IN

ClOUS

FOR

IS ILLINOIS.

SHAW

HAS

SPENT

HIS IMAGES

ALL OF NATURE.

IN THIS

HIS

REVEAL BOOK,

HE

YOU

TO

REALMS GREAT

US A VIEW THE

FIELDS

OF

SNS; ONS INU MES BeALMOST VANISHED:

OF HENRY WILDNESS

THIS BOOK.

VAST.

THAT

ROBERT

JOURNEY

FELT BEFORE

THE

GhASS Ese EVA SOVSADIEYETAV

FAMOUS

A REVERENCE

SHOWN

AND

HOMELAND,

BEAUTY

OUTDOOR

ISINIDIGIE SS SOR

REMINDED

AND

HIS

HE HAS, WITH

CIVILIZATION:

JNINUD)

FOR

A MARVELOUS

UNDERSTANDING,

LOW TERS

I AM

AND

MANY-PACETED

THIS REA

COMING

THE

US WITT

THE

COMPASSION

DAVID IS THE

IT IS THROUGH

HERITAGE

DAN

IDOE

THOREAUS PRESERVATION THE

OF WILDNESS

FOGELBERG

OF THE WORLD.

DEDICATION

OF ARTISTS

CAN

BE PRESERVED.

INDEED

I INVITE

LIKE

ROBERT

SHAW

PREFACE

| _Inrue twitch oF A COLD WINTER MORNING ALONG THE BLUFFS

OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, BALD EAGLES LEAVE THE TREES WHERE THEY HAVE SPENT THE NIGHT TO SEARCH FOR FISH. THEY HAVE NOT EATEN IN TWELVE HOURS, AND AT A TEMPERATURE OF ONLY EIGHT DEGREES, THEIR NEED FOR FISH IS VITAL. THE EAGLES TRAVERSE THE RIVER, WATCHING FOR THE FIRST CHANCE TO DIVE TO THE WATER. AS THE COLOR IN THE SKY INTENSIFIES, A LONE EAGLE SOARS SWIFTLY ACROSS THE RED SUNRISE, ALLOWING ME TO GET THE PHOTOGRAPH I AM LOOKING FOR. ANOTHER EAGLE FLIES CLOSE OVERHEAD, HIS EYES ON ME; | CAN SENSE THE PRESENCE OF POWER AND AN ANCIENT WISDOM. ON A NORTHERN ILLINOIS SAND PRAIRIE IN JUNE, STORMS THUNDER ACROSS THE PLAINS IN THE EARLY MORNING. THE FLOWERS AND PRAIRIE PLANTS ARE ENCHANTING, EXHIBITING AN AMAZING ARRAY OF VARIETY AND COLOR. THE BUTTERFLIES AND NATIVE BIRDS THAT DEPEND ON THIS OASIS ADD SPIRIT TO ALREADY INDESCRIBABLE BEAUTY. THEY HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS PLACE THAT WE WILL NEVER KNOW. AFTER HOURS OF WAITING FOR THE WIND TO CALM LONG ENOUGH FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AN EXPOSURE WITH THE VIEW CAMERA, | AM FULLY CONTENT IN THIS PLACE. BEFORE DAYLIGHT ON A COOL, QUIET MORNING IN EARLY SPRING,

THE

“BOOMING GROUSE

MALE

GREATER

GROUNDS.”

BEGIN

PRAIRIE

CHICKENS

THIS IS THE SELECTED

THE AGE-OLD

COURTSHIP

THE CONDITIONS

TRADITION

DANCE

RITUAL

I NOW

UNDERSTAND

IMAGINE

BEGINS.

IT IS AN AURAL WHY

THE GRANDEUR

FOR MILES ACROSS

ARE RIGHT,

THE

NATIVE

OF CENTURIES

THE PRAIRIES.

AND

TO THE

SITE WHERE

BLIND NEAR THE SITE IN THE DARK, | WAIT AND FORTUNATELY

HEAD

THESE

OF “BOOMING.”

AFTER

SETTING

LISTEN FOR THE PRAIRIE CHICKENS

AND

BEFORE

VISUAL

WERE

SO

THOUSANDS

TO ARRIVE.

OF LIGHT, THE COMMUNAL

EXPERIENCE

AMERICANS PAST, WHEN

A HINT

UP MY

THAT

TRANSCENDS

MOVED OF THESE

BY

PbS.

TIME.

DOES PIZAY.

BIRDS STRETCHED

THE CACHE RIVER BASIN OF SOUTHERN THAT ARE TRULY UNIQUE. HERE GROW OF THE ROCKY NDE

bay

MOUNTAINS.

SANS IMPORTANT

THESE ROLE

IN THE

HERE ON SEVERAL

CYPRESS

TURN

OFre es ONSET

TE

AND

NEAR

COME

OUT

OF THE

THEY

OF

NATURAL

ATTEMPTING AND

WOODS.

WOULD

BRING

WORLD

BEYOND

WOODLAND’S

EDGE. IT IS A BRIEF MOMENT,

OF WIT, STRENGTH,

PREVAIL

AFTER ON

DYNAMIC; TIME

DESTRUCTION

A LARGE

OTHERS

WITH

WONDERS

MASS

AND

NATURE

AND

SMALL

ARE SUBTLE IS A

BEAUTY

AND

AND

GIFT

OF THE NATURAL

LIGHT

FOR

A LONG

TO THE

FIELDS

THESE

BUCK

OLDER

SPEED

POSSESS

AFTER

IN CENTRAL

INTO

WEEKS

OF

PERSISTENCE

AWAY A NEARLY

THE OPEN

FROM

THE

THE LAST LIGHT OF

ANIMAL.

ENVIRONMENT,

WONDERS

OF ILLINOIS. SOME

BUT NO

LESS MAGICAL.

UNDERSTANDS.

REACH

ILLINOIS,

INSPIRING. WITH

PLACES

A KNOWLEDGE

SEVERAL

FORTY YARDS

STEPS OUT

OVERLOOKED,

NATURALIST

MATING

DEER

A BLIND, ABOUT

NATURAL

WORLD

RARELY

THE “RUT,” THEIR

IN THE WILD

OFTEN

EVERY

PREPARING

OF THIS MAGNIFICENT

OF THE

SCALE

THE BALD

IS UNFORGETTABLE.

BUT FOREVER

AN IMAGE

WHEN

COMPREHENSION.

FROM

EXAMPLE

THE DAY, | AM ABLE TO CAPTURE

FOR

LEGENDARY

WORKING

ILLINOIS.

IN THE WARM

PAWNS°OUT

BE SEEN. OUR

ONE

PAY OFE WHILE

GIANTS

EAST

SPECIES

ARE VERY ELUSIVE, AND

NOT

DOO-POUND

EVEN

COLOR.

THEIR

BUCKS

NEVER

TO PHOTOGRAPH

PATIENCE

RUFOUS

IF IT WERE

ALMOST

OF SOUTHERN

ARE ALREADY

TO FEED. THE OLDER

SEASON, THE

DEER

DUSK, Toes WORS

MEADOWS

ECOLOGY

SWAMPS

YEARS OLD, THE OLDEST

TO MANY

TRIPS IN THE AUTUMN

A BEAUTIFUL

WHITETAIL

A THOUSAND

ARE HOME

IMAJESTY OF THESE ANCIENT

IN SEPTEMBER, WINTER.

TREES OVER

WETLANDS

I] PHOTOGRAPHED NEEDLES

ILLINOIS PRESERVES BALD CYPRESS-TUPELO

IN NATURE ARE VERY TO SPEND

EXPERIENCING

THE

MY DEEPEST SENSES. IT IS A SPIRITUAL

CONNECTION

BORN OF A PASSION AND RESPECT FOR NATURE AND ITS INHABITANTS. [ILLINOIS —

SA

LIGHIO

ONS

Or

WITENATURE

AND

DEVELOPED AS DESIRE

AS

TO GIVE

A RESULT OTHERS

OF

THIS

A GREATER

CLOSE

PERSONAL

APPRECIATION

FOR

ROE EWU @UN SEU ie THE

NATURAL

ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS

THAT

IN

IS TOO OFTEN

MANY

AREAS

UNDERTAKE

OF

TAKEN

THE

FOR GRANTED.

COUNTRY

THIS ENDEAVOR

AFTER

SINCE

ABOUT

THE

WORKING

MID~SOS,

MY HOME

HIGHWAYS

ENVISIONING

AGO.

THE

YIELDING HORIZON

DISPLAYED

FOR THE

IN

EVERY

BEAR,

LIKE MOST

ELK, AND

CONTINUE

TO

OBVIOUSLY

BECOMING

WE

CAN

NATIONAL FOREST IF WE

LOSE

THEM,

REINTRODUCE CONSUMPTION,

NEARLY

AND

THE

LIST

REMAINING

IN SOUTHERN

GOES

ON.

BRING

NATIVE

SPECIES.

FROM

IS SOMETHING

THEM

BACK.

RECYCLING EVERYONE

GREAT

TO TWO

DROPPING COMING

EVEN

OUR

FORESTS,

SAVE OUR WE

CAN

OWN

RESTORE

CAN

DO,

AND

OUR

ALL

AREAS

DUE

IN

MAINLY

OUR

WETLANDS

PUBLIC

HEALTH\XIS

DEGRADATION.

INCLUDING

SONGBIRDS

HERE.

ARE

VERY SMALL

DOWN,

TO REDUCING

WOLVES,

THEY

RAPIDLY,

THE

ILLINOIS

LIVED

SAVANNAS,

TO

ILLINOIS

PRAIRIES.

DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL

AND

ILLINOIS. WE CAN

CANNOT

ARE

STILL

THREATENED

WE

THERE

CONFINED

REACH

THROUGHOUT

AND: ANIMALS

AND

SYSTEM

SAVANNAS,

JOLLIET CROSSED

THE

BIRDS

PRAIRIES

ARE

WETLANDS

AND

ROAMED

POPULATIONS

OAK

OF WETLANDS,

FLOURISHED

YEARS

EXTENSIVE

AREAS

WILDLIFE

ALL THE

AN

EHALT WOULD

VAST

SPECIES-OF

TO

OFTEN

HUNDRED

FLOWERS

MARQUETTE

FORESTS

INCREASINGLY

OUR

WITH

ENDANGERED,

BUTTERFLY

ILLINOIS,

WAY TO IMPRESSIVE

WITH

FREELY

OTHER

REMAINING

DISAPPEAR,

SAVE

ALONG

OF BISON

ARE NOW

AND

OUR

AND

THROUGHOUT

SURROUNDED

GIVING

OF PRAIRIES,

NUMEROUS

PRAIRIE CHICKENS

HABITAT'LOSS.

STREAMS,

1673, WHEN

HERDS

FORESTS,

FORESTS

OF ECOSYSTEMS. IN

ROADS-

A DESIRE

ON THIS PROJECT, I TRAVELED

WAS LIKE ONLY TWO OR THREE

DECIDUOUS

VARIETY

DIVERSITY

THE STATE. SONGBIRD TO

THIS LAND

SMALLER

ENVIRONMENT.

OF THE

COUNTRY

DIRECTION.

FIRST TIME, GREAT

BOBCATS,

GONE.

AND

TO THE WIDE

A GREAT

STATE IN EVERY

WHAT

MAGNIFICENT

OF RIVERS THEN

AND

1 FELT

STATE OF ILLINOIS.

OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, WHILE WORKING DOWN

ON PHOTOGRAPHY

AND OUR

THE

SHAWNEE

BUTTERELIES. PRAIRIES

SOCIETY'S

IT IS EVERY

AND

MASSIVE PERSON'S

RESPONSIBILITY. ACCOUNTABLE ANDO (Sb

WE

VEE

HAS

Serie

SOUND LIKE

CAN

ONLY

FUTURE

THE

STATE.

Cite

MAKE

CONTINUES

CLUB

ARE

AND

GROURIW

BXCELLENT

NATURAL

HOSE

IMPORTANT OUR

PRESERVING

INATURAL

AREAS

PRESERVING FOR MANY

web

OUR

DEEP

SPIRITUAL

WORDS THE

LAND

ScIVED

AND

INFORMATION

LAND

OF JOB. THE

AS JOB REMINDS

THEIR

BAD

LEGISLATION

ENVIRONMENT

INTEREST.

AND

CHAPTERS

THROUGHOUT

ON

ISSUES.

THESE

A

ORGANIZATIONS THE

EVERYONE

WILD

CONSERVANCY

GENERATIONS, NEIGHBORS.

OF OUR

TOWNS

HERE

PERFECT

INHABITANTS. WITH

CLAN

ANCIENT

SHAW

THEY

WHO

WISDOM

A

ALL OF NATURE.

A PROFOUND

LIVED

OF THE

FUTURE.

HAD

AND

SHOWED

LEADER

AND

HARMONY

CREATION

WILDLIFE

IS ONE

HIGH,

SO MANY IN

OF ILLINOIS

KEEPS

OF

OF ILLINOIS,

US, IS THE KEY TO OUR

(O97

OF HEALTH

A DIFFERENCE. THEIR WORK

PEOPLE

AND

ROBERT

IN ALL AREAS

FUTURE

OF OUR

ITS WILD

OF THE KICKAPOO

BOOK

FOR

CONNECTION

OF THE

WORK

THE NATIVE

STATE AND

NAMED

THE

LOVE

OF

HAVE

ACTIONS.

OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

A HEALTHY

ALIVE. THE NATURE

STANDARDS.

THE HOMES

CENTURIES

WITH

AND

SOURCES

SOCIETY

ENVIRONMENT

REPRESENTATIVES

FOR THEIR

DISGUISED,

IS IN EVERYONE'S

AUDUBON

HERITAGE

KEBPING

Cte

INTERESTS.

TO COME

ELECTED

THE FUTURE

IN ILLINOIS ARE ALSO MAKING

TEES AVES

PORSW HOM

OF SPECIAL

THE

AND

OUR

A DIFFERENCE.

ILLINOIS’ GREAT

AND

DESTROYS

TO BE, A LOT OF CLEVERLY

GENERATIONS

SEVERAL OTHER GROUPS

SUCH

WHO

ACCOUNTABLE

OF THE PEOPLE

A HANDFUL

FOR

SIERRA

THEY

ANYONE

ELS OF GOVERNMENT

WELPARE

BEEN, AND

BENEFITING

TO START HOLDING

FOR HIS OR HER ACTIONS. WE ALSO HAVE TO HOLD

Ovo

THERE

HAVE

INSIGHT.

IN ILLINOIS AND

PAST WHICH

THEIR

APPRECIATION

THINK

ABOUT

THE SCRIPTURE

IS INHERENT

THE FROM

IN WILDLIFE,

\DULT

BALD

TYPICAL

EAGLE

ON

WHITETAIL

A BLUFF

BUCK

IN

OVERLOOKING

MID-SEPTEMBER

THE

MISSISSIPPI

AT

MASCOUTIN, 18

RIVER

NEAR

CLINTON

CEDAR

LAKB

GLEN

STATE

BAGLE

ROOS1

RECREATION

ARBA

“EVEN

BIRDS

CREATURES

AND

ANIMALS

OF EARTH

THAT THE LORD'S HIS CREATURES;

HAND EVERY

AND

HAVE

MUCH

SEA FOR

MADE

THEM.

THEY

THEIR

COULD

WISDOM.

IT IS GOD

WHO

TEACH

ALL OF THEM DIRECTS

MAN'S LIFE IS IN HIS POWER.”

JOB 12: 7-10 TODAY'S

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YOU; ASK THE

VERSION

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THESE

AT THIS SEASON.”

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