Interview with Gordon and June Frey (3.96595)
Type: Audio
Description:Oral history interview with Gordon Frey and June Hatch Frey conducted by Kurt Dreisilker (Head of Natural Resources, Collections and Grounds).
Topics discussed include June's family history in Lisle, Illinois and her experiences growing up near The Morton Arboretum and the surrounding farms.
Extent: 1 audio CD
Each Year in the Forest: Spring (3.85439)
Creator: Hipp, Andrew
Type: Article
Description:An essay on the natural history of the forest understory from March through May, drawing strongly from The Morton Arboretum’s East Woods.
Significance of Changes in Floristic Composition of the Morton Arboretum's East Woods (3.82246)
Creator: Wilhelm, Gerould
Type: Document
Description:A research paper compiled by Gerould Wilhelm that documents floristic changes in the East Woods of the Morton Arboretum with a emphasis on the role of fire and prescribed burns as a management protocol.
Extent: 25 sheets
Ulmus americana (American Elm), habit, fall (3.64281)
Date: October 25 2010Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus americana (American Elm), habit, fall
Plat of Survey of Part of Section 36, Township 39 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal Meridian in DuPage, County, Illinois (3.6388)
Date: June 14 1954Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:Property originally owned by the Johnson Estate and acquired by the Arboretum as the Sunny Acres purchase.
Includes Herboth A11 written on the left side of the survey.
Extent: 1 sheet
Fall Color Report, October 27-November 3, 2016 (3.62383)
Date: 2016Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Description:Where fall color has been reported at The Morton Arboretum for October 27-November 3, 2016
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), habitat (3.61887)
Date: October 25 2010Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), habitat
Prescription side effects: Long-term, high-frequency controlled burning enhances nitrogen availability in an Illinois oak-dominated forest (3.60021)
Date: 2018Creator: Taylor, Quinn, Midgley, Meghan G.
Type: Article
Fraxinus americana (White Ash), habit, winter (3.56124)
Date: March 10 2007Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Fraxinus americana (White Ash), habit, winter
The effects of prescribed burning on soil and litter invertebrate diversity and abundance in an Illinois oak woodland (3.55378)
Date: 2015Creator: Jacobs, Karel, Scharenbroch, Bryant C.
Type: Article
Two decades of low-severity prescribed fire increases soil nutrient availability in a Midwestern, USA oak (Quercus) forest (3.55318)
Date: 2012Creator: Scharenbroch, Bryant C., Jacobs, Karel, Bowles, Marlin L.
Type: Article
Long-Term Changes in an Oak Forest's Woody Understory and Herb Layer with Repeated Burning (3.55270)
Date: 2007Creator: Bowles, Marlin L., Jacobs, Karel, Mengler, Jeff
Type: Article
The influence of prescribed burning on spiders and pseudoscorpians: Known predators of woodland litter springtails (3.54042)
Date: 2006Creator: Brand, Raymond H.
Type: Article
Plat of Survey of Part of Section 36, Township 39 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal Meridian in DuPage, County, Illinois (3.5363)
Date: June 14 1954Creator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:Property originally owned by the Johnson Estate and acquired by the Arboretum as the Sunny Acres purchase.
Extent: 1 sheet
Revised Plat of Section "C," Morton Arboretum (3.5331)
Date: December 11 1934Creator: Lozier, J. S.
Type: Map
Description:Surveys approximately half of the East Woods area, a tract totaling 158.117 acres.
Extent: 1 sheet
Revised Plat of Section "C," Morton Arboretum (3.5330)
Date: December 11 1934Creator: Lozier, J. S.
Type: Map
Description:Surveys approximately half of the East Woods area, a tract totaling 158.117 acres.
Includes notes in red pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
Revised Plat of Section "B," Morton Arboretum (3.5325)
Date: November 21 1934Creator: Lozier, J. S.
Type: Map
Description:Surveys the area east of Route 53 in the central portion of the Arboretum and extending eastward to the East Woods, a tract totaling 318.996 acres.
Includes notes in red pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
Jerry Wilhelm in the East Woods (3.5222)
Date: 1985Type: Photographic image
Description:Jerry Wilhelm in the East Woods
Extent: 1 photograph
Checklist of the spontaneous plants of The Morton Arboretum and Hidden Lake Forest Preserve (3.47707)
Date: 2012Creator: Sturner, Jason, Hipp, Andrew
Type: Article
Quercus macrocarpa (Bur Oak), habitat (3.46542)
Creator: Bowles, Marlin L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus macrocarpa (Bur Oak), habitat
1991/03/04: Gerard Donnelly to Gerould Wilhelm (3.44243)
Date: March 4 1991Creator: Donnelly, Gerard T.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Gerard Donnelly to Gerould Wilhelm reviewing a research proposal on the restoration and management of different Arboretum plant communities, including two overlay sheets on the maps in the research proposal.
Extent: 14 sheets
1992/06/02: Gary Watson to Chris Whelan (3.44242)
Date: June 2 1992Creator: Watson, Gary W.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Gary Watson to Chris Whelan concerning East Woods research, education, and management.
Extent: 1 sheet
1992/05/12: Tom Green to Chris Whelan (3.44241)
Date: May 12 1992Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Tom Green to Chris Whelan concerning the inclusion of the East Woods in the overall Master Plan for The Morton Arboretum landscape. Management treatment studies, whose results could be shared with others working to manage woodlands in the Chicago region and beyond, are also presented.
Extent: 2 sheets
Table of Changes in Basal Area Arboretum's East Woods, 1980-1985 (3.44233)
Type: Document
Description:"Growth and decline of forest trees of the Morton Arboretum's east woods (King's Grove) from 1980 to 1985. Measurements are expressed in increases or decreases in square inches of basal area/acre."
1992/06/03: Peter van der Linden to Chris Whelan (3.44213)
Date: June 3 1992Creator: van der Linden, Peter J.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Peter van der Linden to Chris Whelan concerning research, education, and management of the East Woods.
Extent: 1 sheet
1992 /06/12: Thomas B. Simpson, Dilip Das, and Craig B. Johnson to Chris [Whelan] (3.44212)
Date: June 12 1992Creator: Simpson, Thomas, Das, Dilip, Johnson, Craig B.
Type: Document
Description:Memo signed by Thomas B. Simpson, Dilip Das, and Craig Johnson to Chris [Whelan] regarding the management of the East Woods.
Extent: 4 sheets
1992/06/03: Rick Hootman and Pat Kelsey to Chris Whelan (3.44211)
Date: June 3 1992Creator: Hootman, Rick, Kelsey, Pat
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Rick Hootman and Pat Kelsey to Chris Whelan regarding research questions and other issues of concern regarding the East Woods.
Extent: 2 sheets
1992/04/07: Chris Whelan to George [Ware] and various staff members (3.44210)
Date: April 7 1992Creator: Whelan, Christopher J.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Chris Whelan to various staff members requesting input in regards to the educational, management, and research issues that they consider important in relation to the East Woods. A post-it note is attached to the memo, signed Chris W. and dated April 14, 1992, asking George [Ware] to review the content.
Extent: 4 sheets
1992/05/21: Jerry Wilhelm to Chris Whelan (3.44209)
Date: May 21 1992Creator: Wilhelm, Gerould
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Jerry Wilhelm to Chris Whelan in response to a memo dated May 7, 1992 discussing the governing philosophy of the curation and maintenance of the Arboretum's Collections versus experimental science, with an emphasis on the East Woods.
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple), habitat (3.41405)
Date: November 19 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple), habitat showing largest native in East Woods
Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple), habitat (3.41404)
Date: November 19 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple), habitat showing largest native in East Woods
Virginia bluebells in the East Woods (3.39919)
Date: April 19 2010Creator: Ervin, Nicole
Type: Photographic image
Description:Virginia bluebells carpet the ground underneath tall trees in spring in the East Woods at The Morton Arboretum
View from railing toward forestry plot (3.37875)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:View from railing toward forestry plot
Extent: 1 negative
Historic Land Use and Current Vegetation in the Morton Arboretum's East Woods (3.36437)
Creator: McBride, Jenny
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheets
Jason "Jake" Miesbauer measuring a tree trunk at The Morton Arboretum (3.36297)
Date: July 11 2013Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Jason "Jake" Miesbauer, research arborist, and Marvin Lo, research assistant, measuring and recording the circumference of a tree trunk in the East Woods of The Morton Arboretum
Stream curving through woods, looking south (3.33559)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Stream curving through woods, looking south
*located at about 107-K on Arboretum map/grid
Extent: 1 negative