| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.2

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

A Natural History of the Chicago Region. By Joel Greenberg. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 595 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $40.00.

This substantial and impressive study of the Chicago region depicts its natural history in the context of "The Great Forces" that shaped it: glaciation, soil formation, climate, weather, fire, and human use of natural resources. Within this framework the author develops fourteen chapters, each relating in detail to specific kinds of plant and animal life and to the region's soils, topography, and water resources. These include the prairies, shrublands and savannas, forests, wetlands, Lake Michigan with its beaches, dunes, and bluffs, the region's rivers and small lakes, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. The author brings the story well into the 1990s and ends with a consideration of "Prospects for the Future." . . .

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