n his twenties, Roy Diblik would regularly volunteer at the 100-acre prairie meadow at the Morton Arboretum on the outskirts of his home city of Chicago. One of the oldest tail-grass restorations in the American Midwest, it was curated by Ray Schulenberg, after whom it’s now named. Roy remembers when, in 1981, Ray asked him to help lay the narrowest of paths through its planting. “It was early in the year and the prairie plants were just emerging after the fire,” he recalls. “Ray said: ‘I just want it one cinder block wide because I want
