Healthy Nature Handbook - Illustrated Insights for Ecological Restoration From Volunteer

The Chicago metropolitan area is home to far more protected nature than most people realize. There's a critical factor of the Chicago Wilderness restoration effort that makes it unique. A grassroots volunteer community, thousands strong, works alongside agency staff to give nearby nature what it needs to thrive in an everchanging urban context. A Healthy Nature Handbook captures hard-earned ecological wisdom from this community in engaging and highly readable chapters, each including illustrated restoration sequences.

About the author

Justin Pepper is the Bobolink Foundation's Chief Conservation Officer. Bobolink's focus is biodiversity conservation in the Americas, emphasizing grasslands, wildlife, and community-based conservation.

Don Parker is a Chicago-region freelance writer, editor, and illustrator with extensive experience in the field of conservation including as a longtime habitat restoration volunteer and leader.

Summary

An illustrated handbook to restoring nature in the Chicago region.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Parker Pepper
• Assisted by: Don Parker (Editor), Parker Don (Editor), Justin Pepper (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781642832426
• ISBN: 978-1-64283-242-6
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies, Applied ecology, Botany & plant sciences, Botany and plant sciences, Grasslands, heaths, prairies, tundra, Plains and grasslands