extinction Archives

February 4, 2018 – Saving the Monarch, Round 2: Pessimists v. Optimists

February 3, 2018February 9, 2018 Mike Nowak environment, extinction, gardening, green living, habitat loss, Kylee Baumlee, milkweed, monarch butterfly, seed germination, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, The Seed Keeper Company

Kylee Baumlee, author of The Monarch: Saving Our Most-Loved Butterfly, visits the WCGO studios, along with Carol Niec and Kerrie Rosenthal from The Seed Keeper Company. On a snowy day, Pat Skach fills in for meteorologist Rick DiMaio.

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September 23, 2017 – A Couple of PhDs Talking Tree Extinction

September 22, 2017September 29, 2017 Mike Nowak ash trees, biodiversity, Davey Tree Expert Company, emerald ash borer, environment, extinction, gardening, Murphy Westwood, oak trees, Rex Bastian, The Mike Nowak Show, The Morton Arboretum

Some of our iconic ash and oak species are on the brink of extinction. Dr. Murphy Westwood from The Morton Arboretum and Dr. Rex Bastian from Davey Tree Experts talk about why that has happened and what we do to save them.

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January 21, 2017 – The Plight of the Bumble Bee

January 20, 2017May 23, 2017 Mike Nowak Endangered Species Act, environment, extinction, gardening, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, pollinators, rusty patched bumble bee, The Mike Nowak Show, Xerces Society

Mike and Peggy talk to two experts–Allen Lawrance from Chicago’s Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Rich Hatfield from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation–about the recent decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.

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When cucumber beetles, humans and banks attack

August 25, 2011 Mike Nowak Chicago, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Community gardens, extinction, Pesche's Garden Center, Project Passenger Pigeon, Rahm Emanuel, urban agrcilture, zoning

August 21, 2011 Attack of the cucumber beetles! Those of you who follow my radio show and this website know