Season 1: Urban Nature
Take a walk on the wild side with host Marcus Kronforst and WTTW tracking animal and plant life in the urban jungle of Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.
Cities once converted streams into sewers to make room for development.
The Streams Below Our Streets
Saving San Francisco’s Sea Lions
The Marine Mammal Center in the San Francisco Bay Area is on a mission to save sea lions.
Saving San Francisco’s Sea Lions
Nature is taking over at North Brother Island, the former home of a typhoid hospital.
New York's Deserted Island
The salt marshes in New York's Jamaica Bay support endangered birds and rare turtles.
Jamaica Baywatch
Want to know what Chicago looked like 200 years ago? Head to the city’s southeast corner.
Chicago's Crossroads
It’s a seemingly impossible task: cataloguing every wild plant species in Central Park.
Central Park Plant Census
The monarch butterfly’s remarkable migration is in peril. Could cities come to the rescue?
Can Cities Save the Monarch?
We cycled a few of the wildlife corridors designated in the city’s Green Connections Plan.
A Wild Plan for San Francisco
Hiking Through History in The Presidio
What was San Francisco like before Europeans arrived? Look no further than The Presidio.