By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer
While I was looking up hiking info, I stumbled upon Chicago Wilderness Magazine. Although it appears to have stopped publication, there are many great articles and links about Chicago’s wilderness. Link here.
Info from their website:
The Corporate Council brings the resources, skills, capabilities, and influence of its members to foster widespread awareness of the region’s biodiversity and to develop broad-based support for its protection, restoration, and stewardship. Learn more
What is Chicago Wilderness?
The Chicago Wilderness Region
Embedded in one of North America’s largest metropolitan regions and stretching from southeastern Wisconsin, through northeastern Illinois, into northwestern Indiana and southwestern Michigan is a network of natural areas that includes nearly 370,000 acres of protected lands and waters. These natural areas are Chicago’s wilderness, and they are home to a wide diversity of life. Thousands of native plant and animal species live here among the more than nine million people who also call the region home.
The Chicago Wilderness Alliance
Chicago Wilderness is a regional alliance that connects people and nature. We are more than 250 organizations that work together to restore local nature and improve the quality of life for all who live here, by protecting the lands and waters on which we all depend. Our four key initiatives—to restore the health of local nature, green infrastructure, combat climate change, and leave no child inside—reflect our commitment to using science and emerging knowledge, as well as a collaborative approach to conservation, to benefit all the region’s residents.
The members of Chicago Wilderness include local, state and federal agencies, large conservation organizations, cultural and education institutions, volunteer groups, municipalities, corporations, and faith-based groups. chicagowilderness.org.
The Back Issues page lists all the archives issues with a list of the article topics. Link here. Some of the back issues are listed/shown below.
 Summer 2009 |
 Spring 2009 |
 Winter 2009 |
 Fall 2008 |
Related articles
- Obama proclaims September national wilderness month (gadling.com)
- Bill Meadows: The Wilderness Act: What Americans Have Gained Since 1964 (huffingtonpost.com)
- A Forum on Parks, Open Space and Nature (chicagonow.com)
- Colville National Forest unites environmentalists and loggers (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Monday Night – A Forum on Parks, Open Space and Nature at the Field Museum (chicagonow.com)
- Fate Of Idaho Wilderness Battle Comes Down To One Man (environment.change.org)
- Wash. alliance aims to aid economy and environment (sfgate.com)
- How Asian carp could help the Great Lakes. (freep.com)
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