HeyJaredOf Feathers & Steel
Of Feathers & Steel is a publication of stories and reflections about the complex interplay between industry and nature at a park on Chicago's South Side that was once home to one of the largest steel mills in the world.
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The Effervescent American Goldfinch (opens the original)
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Indebted to the Dickcissels (opens the original)
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I confess that I’m a late bloomer when it comes to appreciation of the richness of the midwestern grasslands. I was always an avid hiker and camper, but to me natural beauty meant the forests of northern Michigan, or the canoeing paradise of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters. Prairie? Grassland? Those were the empty spaces between forests. Pretty flowers sometimes, impressive vistas, amber waves of grain and all that stuff, but in general not much happening. After all, they’re called plains for a reas
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