Paradise Lost?

Paradise Lost? Climate Change in the Northwoods is a collaboration of artists and scientists brought together in an exhibit that began touring in February 2007. Mary Burns contributed this piece, Trail of Feathers. This weaving depicts bird species that may no longer be able to breed in Wisconsin. The birds include the redstart, evening grosbeak, Cape May warbler, blackburnian warbler, magnolia warbler, trumpeter swan, raven, loon, purple finch, winter wren and black-throated green warbler. Mary asks, "What will the world be like without the ethereal call of the hermit thrush or the 'zee-zee-zee-zu-zee' of the black-throated green warbler tumbling down through the hemlocks? Who will usher in spring when the white throated sparrow's 'Oh, sweet Canada, Canada, Canada' no longer wakes us?"

See Calendar for schedule and locations of the Paradise Lost? exhibit.

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