Louise Clemency, Supervisor of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Chicago Illinois Field Office and Nina Baki, Community Outreach Coordinator for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, talk about spring migration and the various bird count activities happening this month in anticipation of Chicago’s International Migratory Bird Day Celebration on May 20.

 

On their first Sunday show at WCGO, Mike andn Peggy discuss natural lawn care, the threat of invasives to the Great Lakes, and unethical and inhumane predator hunts in Illinois.

Steve Neumann from Logic Lawn Care offers advice about how to practice natural lawn care. Dan Egan, author of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, explains how opening up those bodies of fresh water to the world have also opened them up to attack by invasive species. Marc Ayres, Illinois State Director for the Humane Society of the United States, reports on unethical coyote hunting contests in Illinois, and promotes a bill to protect bobcats from certain kinds of traps.

Brad Temkin is a photographer whose images of rooftop gardens was recently shown at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Professor Mike Bryson from the Sustainability Studies department joins him to discuss their collaboration in presenting the show.

Photographer Brad Temkin and Michael Bryson, professor and director of Sustainability Studies at Roosevelt University talk about their collaboration on Brad's exhibit, Rooftop: Second Nature, which just closed at the university's Gage Gallery.

Kathleen Thompson and Rick DiMaio report from the March for Science Chicago, and Joe Lamp'l from Growing a Greener World talks about water conservation in the backyard.

Show contributor Kathleen Thompson and meteorologist Rick DiMaio report from different parts of the March for Science Chicago on Earth Day 2017. Joe Lamp'l, creator and host of Growing a Greener World, offers some backyard water conservation tips and promotes a the Rain Bird Rain Delay Sweepstakes.

Craig LeHoullier, author of Epic Tomatoes, discusses his thirty years of studying the fruit (yes, it is), and reveals his favorite varieties.Kay McKeen previews the Focus on Energy,film festival, which Mike will be emceeing on April 23.

Craig LeHoullier is a gardener, educator and author of Epic Tomatoes: How to Select & Grow the Best Varieties of All Time. (Not too much pressure to get it right, eh?) He joins Mike and Peggy to just scratch the skin, so to speak, of the fruit that is most Americans' favorite vegetable. Kay McKeen from SCARCE reports on big plans for Earth Day and for the Focus on Energy Film Festival, which Mike will be emceeing on April 23.

Mike and Peggy interview the owner of a proposed composing operation in Cook County about why it is so controversial, and talk to a nature photographer who is documenting endangered species in Illinois.