Online References

Status, Trends, and Potential of Biological Communities of the Grand Calumet River Basin

Calumet Ecological Park Feasibility Study, 1998. 

vPlants: a Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region. The online resource for Plants and Fungi offering: specimen data and images species descriptions * county distribution maps * photo galleries *

Chicago Wilderness Magazine

Chicago Links :Geology, nature, history etc.

Chicago Wilderness - a regional nature reserve that includes more than 225,000 acres of protected natural areas. It stretches from southeastern Wisconsin, through northeastern Illinois and into northwestern Indiana. The protected areas of Chicago Wilderness are forest preserves, state parks, federal lands, county preserves, and privately owned lands. There are also many unprotected natural areas that offer refuge to native wildlife.

Printed References

Brock Kenneth J. 1986. Birds of the Indiana Dunes. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.

Cowles, Henry C. 1899. “The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan”, Botanical Gazette 27:95-391.

Daniel, Glenda. 1984. Dune Country, A Guide for Hikers and Naturalists.  Ohio University Press, Athens, OH.

Deam, Charles C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. Indiana Department of Conservation, Indianapolis, IN.

Engel, Joan G., editor. 1997. The Indiana Dunes Story 2nd ed. Shirley Heinze Environmental Fund, Michigan City, IN.

Engel, J. Ronald. 1983. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes. Wesleyan University Press, Middleton, CT.

Greenberg, Joel. 2002. A Natural History of the Chicago Region. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Hiebert, Ronald D., Douglas A. Wilcox, and Noel B. Pavlovic. 1986.  “Vegetation Patterns in and among Pannes (Calcareous Intradunal Ponds) at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.”  American Midland Naturalist 116:276-81.

Homoya, Michael A.1993. Orchids of Indiana. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.

Jensen, Jens.  Siftings.  The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Mohar, Peg, editor; Plampin, Barbara, introduction. 2000. A Congenial Fellowship: A Botanical Correspondence between Charles C. Deam and Floyd A. Swink, 1946-1951. Shirley Heinze Environmental Fund, Michigan City, IN.

Olson, Jerry S. 1958. “Rates of Succession and soil changes on southern Lake Michigan Sand Dunes,” Botanical Gazette 119:125-170.

Pavlovic, N.B. 1994. “Disturbance-dependent persistence of rare plants: anthropogenic impacts and restoration implications.” In M.L. Bowles and C Whelan, editors. Recovery and Restoration of Endangered Species. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 28 pp.

Peattie, Donald C. 1930. Flora of the Indiana Dunes.  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

Peattie, Donald C.  1938. A Prairie Grove. The Literary Guild of America.

Pepoon, Herman S.  1927. An Annotated Flora of the Chicago Area.  The Lakeside Press.

Stevens, William K. 1995. Miracle Under the Oaks.  Simon & Schuster.

Swink, Floyd and Wilhelm, Gerould. 1994. Plants of the Chicago Region. 4th edition. Indiana Academy of Science, Indianapolis, IN. (out of print)

Teale, Edwin Way. 1943. Dune Boy: The Early Years of a Naturalist. Bibliopola Press.

Watts, May Thielgaard. 1957. “Picnic in a Gritty Wind”. In Reading the Landscape. Macmillan Company, New York. [Nature Study Guild Reprint Edition, 1999.]

Wiggers, Raymond. 

Geology Underfoot in Illinois. Raymond Wiggers.  Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1997