Interlochen Public Radio, an NPR member station, just published a segment about some of my PhD research! The episode is approximately 9 minutes long and focuses on my efforts to determine if broadcasted audio can attract rails to appropriate habitat. And the title, ‘Thin as a Rail,’ does not refer to me! Check it out here:
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/show/points-north/2022-08-19/thin-as-a-rail
An article that I wrote about the Grand Kankakee Marsh and efforts to bring it back was recently published by Earth Island Journal, so I thought I’d share the link. The marsh was once the largest inland wetland in the U.S., but growing up in northern Indiana I mainly just saw agricultural fields where it had been.
Here is a map of the vicinity where the marsh occurred, and where it could be brought back:
Thoughts of a Naturalist 