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Joanne Fessett has some tips on where to go winter birding in the city and suburbs. Also: how bird patterns change along with our climate.
While neither the city’s Streets and Sanitation Department, nor the Illinois Department of Transportation is expected to completely cut out road salt, there should be a continual push to reduce the amount used by experimenting with more environmentally friendly products.
Danielle Haake, director of the program, talks about how salt that gets washed into rivers can harm creatures all up the food chain and about a program that has citizen volunteers help monitor waterways.