Bergamot
1 2019-10-08T20:12:20+00:00 Kate Flynn 7a93418b93b9db509597a67ae6311be88dcb38d6 14 2 Bergamot is one of the common native plants present along the Illinois Prairie Path. plain 2019-10-22T14:24:08+00:00 This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). North Central College Rachel Shaevel e1921ae15fc281505fb502844fa624f60b45e1b3This page is referenced by:
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As the Victorian Era wound down and met the dawn of the 20th century, our oak was more than 60 years old and about as many feet tall, while the city it has grown up alongside topped one and a half million residents.
Gone were the virgin prairie and savanna, replaced by the perfectly aligned grid of Chicago streets. The city’s geometric design was interspersed with wide boulevards and parks, and transected by a network of manmade waterways, roads and rail lines, branching out of the city center to the suburbs and beyond. As urbanization steadily progressed, so did a small but solidifying movement to better understand, embrace and advocate for the environment and local ecosystem. These efforts would continue to grow and influence the ways in which the city interacts with its natural environment in the decades to come, shaping the lives of all of its residents: flora, fauna, and even that family strolling through the zoo on a warm fall day in 2019, pausing in the shade of a great old oak tree near the gibbon yard.Exhibit continues with "GROWING A PATH FROM THE GRASS ROOTS">>
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