Our Shared Environment Be mindful of endangering the local wildlife
Sadly, there are those among us who don't share this column's affinity for the wild and the free.

Our Shared Environment Warbler season has arrived in Naperville

Late, late at night, when all is very still outside, you can still hear the ceaseless thrum-hum of tires on the highways -- I-88, Route 59, Ogden Avenue, 75th Street -- as people go about their business around and through Naperville.

Our Shared Environment Squirrels: the clowns of Naperville

My kids can be squirrelly. Your dog is squirrelly. Her sister is occasionally squirrelly. Congress is most certainly squirrelly.

Our Shared Environment Chipmunks: Pleasant neighbors or pests?
Joe Naper and Bailey Hobson settled here in the early 1830s. Tamius striatus, if the fossil record is to be believed, was here in the Miocene epoch, between 5 and 23 million years earlier. You'd think that would give old Tamius some privileges, something like squatter's rights. But no, that is not the case. It is most definitely not the case. Did I mention that Tamius striatus is better known as the eastern chipmunk?