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Winter 2002-2003
In a Place Called Illinois: Mermet Lake Conservation Area • The 300th Illinois Nature Preserve at White Pine Forest State Park • The Changing Faces of the Shawnee • Mysteries of the Barrens • The Lessons of Dixon Springs • Focal Point: Just the Slime

Fall 2002
If We Could Start Over... Lessons Learned from the Illinois River • Time Along the River • A Look Back: Harvesting the River • From Buttons to Bullheads to Bushels: The Illinois River Economy • Direct Seeding of Trees • Emiquon—A Place of Hope on the Illinois River • Youth on the Illinois River: Stewardship Experiences that Last a Lifetime • Building Barriers to Invasive Species • In a Place Called Illinois: Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge • Voyages of the Anax • Focal Point: Tracks

Summer 2002
In a Place Called Illinois: Wildlife Prairie State Park • Wolves, Creatures of Legend and Lore • A Leopold Experience • Illinois' Biological Memory • Lost Art • 4-H: Teaching Stewardship • Exotic Birds • Focal Point: Getting Your Own Piece of the Pie

Spring 2002
Living on the Fringe of Farmland • Thomas J. Burrill's Forest Tree Plantation: Today's Illini Grove • Exotic, Invasive Species in Illinois • The Color Purple: An Education Program About Exotic Species • Getting a Hold on Kudzu Before It Gets a Hold of Us • Focal Point: Ecological "Ugly"

Winter 2002
In a Place Called Illinois: Chasing Butterflies • Dr. Barnes and His Moth and Butterfly Museum • Robert Allerton...An Ethic of the Middle Ground • Illinois Owls: By Night and Day • Saving Two of Illinois' Sweet and Spicy Crops • Focal Point: Tri-, Tri-, Try

Fall 2001
In a Place Called Illinois: Cache River State Natural Area—Tupelo Trail • The Morrow Plots: Illinois' Agricultural Landmark • Coming Home to Roost: The History of the Wild Turkey in Illinois • Buffers: Time-Tested and True • When Steam Dredges Transformed Wetlands to Croplands in Illinois • Dancing on the Dredges • Japanese Gardens: A Reverence for Nature • Focal Point: Butterfly Window: The Past Revisited

Summer 2001
Illinois Invader: The Asian Tiger Mosquito • Insects in the Prairies: Strategies for Survival • Prescribed Burning and Prairie Insects: Can We Have Both? • Early Botanists, Early Remnants • Down in the Canebrakes • Focal Point: Photojournaling

Spring 2001
U of I Looks to Protect Land Near Allerton Park • In a Place Called Illinois: North with the Spring—Touches Here and There • Peddler Pines: Silent Sentinels of the Prairie • The New Pioneers: Grasslands of the 21st Century • Prairie Chickens: Promoting a Population "Boom" • More than Meets the Eye: Searching the Illinois: Landscape for Signs of Glaciers • Focal Point: The Artful Blur

Winter 2001
In a Place Called Illinois: In Search of Skunk Cabbage and Marsh Marigolds • Dreams Not Realized: Early Attempts at Land Preservation in Illinois • Aldo Leopold: Listening to the Land • Finding Nature's Gold • Backyard Birding • Focal Point: On Extinction

Fall 2000
In a Place Called Illinois: Garden of the Gods • Fall Foliage: Nature's Color Pallet • Days of the Market Hunter • Praying Mantis • This Land We Share: Public Attitudes Toward Illinois Wildlife • Focal Point: Be Prepared

Summer 2000
In a Place Called Illinois: Glacial Park • Applying Technology to Complex Ecosystem Problems • Growing the New Grasslands • Ancient Predators • The Paw Paw: Taking a Second Look • Focal Point: Why, Why, Why Take Pictures?

Spring 2000
In a Place Called Illinois: La Rue - Pine Hills—Illinois' Garden of Eden • More than Space and Time: Creating a Vision in the Great Smoky Mountains • The Practical Farm: A Legacy of Samuel Allerton • The Mahomet Aquifer • Sangamon Phlox • Native Trees Moving Into the Urban Illinois Landscape • Focal Point: From the Heart

Winter 2000
Winter—A Photo Essay • In a Place Called Illinois: Early Stewardship of Beall Woods • Nachusa Grasslands • The Hunts of Indian Summer • Nitrogen—The State of Our State • Focal Point: All Things Vertical

Fall 1999
In a Place Called Illinois: Models that Migrate • Climate Change and Variability • Anatomy of a Woodland Burn • Illinois Insect Invaders • Sustainable Farm Families—A Tradition of Marching to a Different Drummer • Focal Point: From the Mundane to the Miraculous

Summer 1999
In a Place Called Illinois: American Lotus • The Gifts of Mitchell's Grove • Restoration Volunteers—The More You Give, The More You Receive • Life on the Edge—Geologic Influences on Unique Habitat • Groundwater Protection in Karst Areas • Are Amphibian and Reptile Populations Declining? • Focal Point: The Frog, the Toad, the Turtle, and the Snake

Spring 1999
In a Place Called Illinois: Mississippi Palisades State Park • My Favorite Tree • Natives in Unlikely Surroundings • Illinois Natural History Survey • The Wrens of Illinois: Cheery and Energetic Sprites of Park and Garden • Osage Orange: A Living Fence • Focal Point: "Shooting" Our Feathered Friends

Winter 1999
The Middle Fork—Illinois' National Scenic River • The Power of Trees • Governor Jim Edgar's Legacy of Stewardship • This Land is Irreplaceable! Beall Woods and Goose Lake Prairie • The Deep Snow and the Sudden Freeze • Focal Point: Insects—A Poetic Practicum