A Healthy Nature Handbook

Edited by Justin Pepper and Don Parker A Healthy Nature Handbook

An illustrated handbook to restoring nature in the Chicago region.

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.

Nature/Ecosystems & Habitats September 2021 Paperback: $20.00 978-1-64283-242-6 Ebook: $19.99 978-1-64283-243-3 168 pages. 7 x 10 Island Press Short

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

Don Parker is a Chicago-region freelance writer, editor, and illustrator with extensive experience in the field of conservation. First as editor of Chicago Wilderness Magazine, then with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, and now serving a range of clients, Don has worked for two decades to engage people in meaningful long-term relationships with the natural world.

Editors’ residences: Chicago, Illinois

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Restoration Karen D. Holl

Restoring Ecological Health to Your Land Steven I. Apfelbaum and Alan Haney