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The Environmental Science classes conducted field studies on a privately-owned, reconstructed prairie 
in Macoupin County, Illinois, on September 25, 2002.  The data becomes part of the documentation
for the Illinois EcoWatch network and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. 


Click the thumbnail images below to see full-sized pictures.

plant features.jpg (59452 bytes)
Recording plant 
identification features 		 perimeter.jpg (44022 bytes)
Measuring prairie perimeter
 photographers.jpg (61855 bytes)
Photographing plants 
for identification		 landcover.jpg (35675 bytes)
Identifying the border 
and land cover types 
on each side of the prairie
milkweed leaf .jpg (58606 bytes)
Milkweed leaf 		 milkweed pod .jpg (52786 bytes)
Milkweed pod
 hairyaster.jpg (47464 bytes)
Hairy aster
 gray-headed coneflower Jeff.jpg (38981 bytes)
Gray-headed coneflower 		 New England aster stem .jpg (38675 bytes)
New England Aster stem 
Indian grass and goldenrod Trisha Brittany.jpg (34318 bytes)
Indian grass 
and goldenrod
 91802 Denby rough white lettuce flower head .jpg (50800 bytes)
Rough white lettuce - flower head		 91802 Denby rough white lettuce fuzzy buds.jpg (33865 bytes)
Rough white lettuce - fuzzy flower buds		 91802 Denby rough white lettuce flower2.jpg (34449 bytes)
Rough white lettuce - single flower		 91802 Denby white wild indigo single seed pod with tip.jpg (26880 bytes)
Wild white indigo - 
seed pod