Preface and Acknowledgments 1. The Great Forces Ice Sculptor: Glaciation, Fertility Underfoot: Soil, Atmospheric Impacts: Climate, Burned to Life: Fire, A New Force, 2. In Quality Unexcelled: Prairie Types and Composition Of Breezes and Braided Roots: The Grasses, Where Spring Begins: The Gravel Prairies, The Richest of All: The Black-Soil Prairies, On the Bones of Earth: The Dolomite Prairies, Dr. Clute''s Domain: The Sand Prairies of Braidwood, 3. In Quality Diminished: Prairie Settlement and Conservation Under the Fleur-de-lis: The French Period, The Prairie Resists: Treelessness, Fire, Disease, and Other Barriers to Settlement, The Defenses Crumble but Some Prairie Survives, The Turning Point for Prairie Conservation: Goose Lake Prairie, Prairie Tales: A Few Prairies and the Battles to Save Them, Protecting the Protected: Prairie Stewardship and Management, 4. The Nearly Vanished Transitions: Barrens and Savannas Gone So Quickly: The Deep-Soil Shrublands and Savannas, All Sorts of Floral Treasures: The Sand Savannas and Shrublands, Like Nowhere Else on Earth: The Savanna of Langham Island, 5. Witnesses to History: Forests Letting in the Light: Oak Forests, Where Shadows Reign: Maple Forests, Raised in Flood and Drought: Lowland Forests, Mostly On or Under the Trees: Lichens and Mushrooms, From Lumber to Ecosystems: Utilization and Conservation, Knotty Questions: How Best to Treat Local Forests, 6. Of Two Worlds: Wetlands The Pilgrims Progress to Section 404: Destruction and Conservation of Wetlands, On a Cusp: Sedge Meadows and Marshes, Wiggly Fields: Bogs and Fens, 7.

The Last Wilderness: Lake Michigan The Sullying of Lake Michigan: Pollution, Floaters, Bottom Dwellers, and a Filter Feeder Run Amok: The Plankton and Benthos, Agents of Change: Commercial Fishing and Alien Species, Victims of Change: Native Fish, 8. Approaching the Way: Rivers and Small Lakes Rivers in Flux, Current Affairs: River Ecology, River Atrophy: The Disappearing Mussels, Like Crystals on the Landscape: The Small Glacial Lakes, 9. Casualties of a Modern World: The Marshes of the Kankakee and Calumet Two Thousand Bends of a Silver Thread: The Kankakee''s Great Marsh, The Marsh That Will Not Die: The Calumet, 10. Lake Michigan''s Rim: Beaches, Dunes, and Bluffs Setting the Scene, So Many Fine Examples of Rare and Beautiful Species: Natural Communities of the Indiana Dunes, By Their Deeds, Ye Shall Know Them: Utilization and Conservation of the Indiana Dunes, Steeper and More Mesic: The Dunes of Berrien County, Not All Treasure Is at the Rainbow''s End: The Western Dunesland, Cool Shadowy Slopes: The Bluffs and Ravines, 11. Many More Than We Know: Insects Beleaguered Beetles, Mystery Moths, and A Rediscovered Dragonfly: A Smattering of Endangered Insects, Flitting on the Edge: The Mitchell''s Satyr and the Karner Blue, Mere Patches in Time and Space: The Corpse as Ecosystem and Forensic Entomology, Conspicuous on a Large Scale: Insect Swarms, The Musical Brood: Periodic Cicadas, 12. Survivors in Trouble: Reptiles and Amphibians In the Soup and Pets of Plunder: Turtles, Long and Suffering: Snakes (and Three Lizards), Winding through History: Massasauga Rattlesnakes, Under Cover or on the March: Salamanders, Plight of the Choristers: Frogs and Toads, 13. Of Extinction and Resurrection: Passenger Pigeon, Prairie Chicken, Sandhill Crane, and Colonial Nesters Remembering Martha and Her Kin: Passenger Pigeon, A Chronicle of the Boom Times: Prairie Chicken, Triumph of the Trumpeter: Sandhill Crane, Changing Status of the Colonial Nesters: Cormorants, Herons, and Gulls, 14. For Everything There Is a Season: Birds through the Year Nesting Season: Birds of Woodlands, Nesting Season: Birds of Grasslands and Marsh, In Passage: Migration and Vagrancy, Thriving in the Cold: Wintering Birds, 15.

Figures in Fur: Mammals What a Time It Must Have Been: Extirpated Species, They Fly by Night: Bats, Burrowers, Tree Dwellers, and Engineers: Insectivores and Rodents, Adaptable Song Dog of City and Suburb: The Coyote, Meet the Neighbors: Raccoons, Opossums, and Skunks, The Metamorphosis of Bambi: White-Tailed Deer, Conclusion: Prospects for the Future Do Go Gentle into That Good Fight: Ecological Restoration and Construction, Sharing Space: Institutional Trends, A Place for All: Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and Prairie Parklands, Notes Bibliography Index.