Windy City wild
by Robert Shaw · 2000
Within a 55-mile radius of the city of Chicago there are no less than five distinctive ecosystems, including tall-grass prairies, oak savannas, forests, lakeshores, and wetlands. Several of the natural communities preserved here are among the rarest in the world, including 181 species listed as endangered or threatened.
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