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By Yasmeen Scott/Free Spirit Media
“Through interviewing Chicago residents and black professionals within the food industry, FSM News Reporter Yasmeen Scott explores the history of black food and how it’s celebrated within the black community of Chicago.”
Posted on August 14, 2017
By The United States Postal Service
Hi,
I’m with the Postal Service and wanted to give you a heads up that Illinois photographer Justin Fowler beat the odds by having his photo appear on a Forever stamp.
The Postal Service receives about 40,000 suggestions for stamp ideas each year, but only about 20 to 25 topics make the cut.
To have your work immortalized on a stamp is quite rare. In this case it’s Fowler’s photo of a Monarch and a goldenrod. Please feel free to reach out to Justin. He’s a great interview.
Posted on August 8, 2017
By J.J. Tindall
Bike on a Tightrope
Mid-summer sun almost directly
overhead makes a shadow
of telephone lines, like
a black tightrope,
right down the center
of a neighborhood alley.
Posted on August 7, 2017
By Helene Smith
He came to Chicago in 1955. He was 17.
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Posted on August 4, 2017
By Eric Freedman/WisContext
We hear about the success stories of transplanting – translocating in technical talk – animals to protect endangered species, improve genetic variability and reestablish populations in areas where they’ve disappeared. Among those successes: moose reintroduced into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from Ontario in the 1980s and the Florida panther.
The process is called augmentation, and the goal is for translocated individuals to deepen the gene pool and produce abundant offspring. It’s been labeled a valuable tool for conservation biologists.
We also hear about translocation controversies, including whether the National Park Service should reintroduce wolves onto Isle Royale now that virtually all the national park’s wolf population has died.
We don’t hear much about the failures.
Now a study published in the March/April 2017 issue of the journal Conservation Letters has examined one such project that fell short of the hopes of conservation biologists — the translocation of American martens (Martes americana) into Wisconsin’s Chequamegon National Forest.
Posted on August 3, 2017
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