Ben and Joy

Last Sunday we took a trip back to Cabin Creek Bog, Randolph County, to see how the site was faring.  It had been several years since I had ...

Pyrgus communis - Common Checkered Skipper This is my best guess, although nothing else seemed to look like it in the book. Sometimes I th...

Cabin Creek Bog, the north end of the main sedge meadow. I recently learned (or relearned) that Cabin Creek Bog, in Randolph County, is a N...

Today Dr. Ruch and I completed the second out of three monitoring sessions for the year at Cabin Creek Bog. This wetland is actually a fen ...

Yellow Star Grass

Blue Marsh Violet

Today Dr. Ruch and I completed the first (of three) rounds of monitoring at Cabin Creek Bog, in Randolph County, IN. Not too many plants, o...

Will County, Illinois June 11, 2008. Junonia coenia from Cabin Creek Bog

Helianthus giganteus - Cabin Creek Bog Dr. Ruch and I just finished up our last sampling period for the year at Cabin Creek Bog. It is a lo...

Dr. Ruch and I are finishing up the third sampling period for the year at Cabin Creek Bog, Randolph County. The prairie area has a lot of p...

One of the lilies that grows out in the fen. Sticky Tofieldia is on the state's rare plant list. The flower gets its name from sticky ...