62 SMITHSONIAN | March 2020
LIFE RETURNS TO THE LIMBERLOST
Generations after the area was swallowed up
for agriculture, logging and natural gas, the
Loblolly Marsh is once again teeming with the
kinds of birds, insects, plants and animals that
thrived there during Stratton-Porter’s lifetime.
Clockwise from top left: A butterfl y called
eastern comma, a fi eld sparrow, a white-
tailed deer, white asters, an American
toad and native grasses.