Growing Fruits and Veggies in the CityNew Air Pollution RulesWater Lessons from IsraelDoes Dirt Makes Us Smarter?The Pride of an Industrial TownSunscreen Safety QuestionedA Greener Way to Work?Saving Rainforests Helps U.S. FarmersD.I.Y. Cleaning ProductsNew Smokestack Rules
Whose Nature Are We Talking About?
Several neighbors near Cook County Illinois' Bunker Hill Forest Preserve are concerned about the loss of trees. Bathsheba Burmin is third from the left. (Photo by Shawn Allee)
When somebody says a natural area, does everybody have the same thing in mind? Some might see a park with baseball fields or a golf course as a natural area. But natural area means what it looked like for hundreds or thousands of years before humans started changing the landscape. Sometimes, that natural landscape was changed so long ago, when it’s restored to the way it looked oringally, it’s not very familiar to the people who live there now. Shawn Allee talked with some people who disagree about the idea of restoring natural areas:
Producer: Shawn Allee
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Running Time: 3:35