| "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover, and a bee, And revery." - Emily Dickinson |
Supplementary videos
Coriolis effect: rotating earth causes prevailing winds
Extra readings
- American Buffalo: Troubled Herds PBS 3/30/09
- Terrestrial Ecoregions World Wildlife Fund
- Northern Prairie Ecoregion World Wildlife Fund
- Drummer Silty Clay Loam Gets Its Due Chicago Tribune 5/13/91
- USDA IL Crop map (Grassland Herbaceous is less than 1%)
- Chicago Wilderness Resources
- An Atlas of Biodiversity (Chicago Wilderness)
| "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein |
Supplementary videos
Additional material
- Coal maps (Illinois State Geological Survey)
- The Chicago Area Before Human Transformation
| "A single spark can start a prairie fire." - Mao Zedong |
Supplementary videos
Extra readings
- Flower power makes tropics cooler, wetter University of Chicago 6/16/10
- Miracle of Seagulls The Encyclopedia of Mormonism
| "The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Supplementary videos
Extra readings
- Sod Houses American Memory from the Library of Congress
- Darwin's Earthworm Experiments Broke New Ground NPR 2/12/09
| "Home is the nicest word there is." - Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Supplementary videos
| "You can take the frog out of the pond, but you cannot take the pond out of the frog." - Candace Savage |
Supplementary videos
Extra readings
- Mitigation Banking Factsheet EPA 1/12/09
- Otter Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank Land and Water Resources, Inc.
- Sod House Made with Prairie Cord Grass Prairie Moon Nursery, 1/28/10
- Conservation Reserve Program: cropland & wetlands go hand in hand Ducks Unlimited
- Illinois RiverWatch Network: a citizen scientist program to monitor Illinois streams
| "Only YOU can prevent forest fires." - Smokey Bear |
Supplementary videos
Extra readings
- Brood Parasitism and Nest Predation Cornell Lab of Ornithology
| "Worrying about starving future generations won't feed them. Food biotechnology will." - Monsanto |
Supplementary videos
Extra readings
- Types Of Wheat Commodity Futures & Equity Analytics
- Glowing Tobacco Plants Science News 9/27/86
- Snowy tree cricket Harvard Entomology
| "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo |
Supplementary videos
Extra readings
- New Conservation Reserve Program Initiative to Restore Grasslands, Wetlands and Wildlife USDA 3/2/12
- The Sandhills - Building Partnerships for an Ecosystem U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Tombstones And Tallgrass Outdoor Illinois
- Mitigation Banking Factsheet EPA 1/12/09
- Chicago-area wetland mitigation banks are bogged down Chicago Tribune 1/28/09
- Otter Creek mitigation project (St. Charles)
Supplementary videos
Supplementary videos
Extra readings
- Darwin's theory of atoll formation The voyage of the Beagle 1839
- Darwin's study on barnacles Living Cirripedia 1954
- Darwin's experiments on mud on birds' feet The Origin of Species 1859
- Darwin's sexual selection theory best explanation for gender differences Mizzou Weekly 4/22/10
- Darwin's study on plant hormones The Power of Movement of Plants 1881
- Darwin's Earthworm Experiments Broke New Ground NPR 2/12/09
