"IN DISARMING THE PRAIRIE, noted landscape photographer Terry Evans offers haunting and hopeful images of the impact of America's military-industrial complex on the environment and the transformation of a former military base into a unique nature preserve and public recreation area. Located 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, the Joliet Army Arsenal was once the world's largest TNT facotry, surrounded by 19,000 acres of open lands--farmlands, meadows, wetlands, and forest..." From the back cover of Disarming the Prairie by Terry Evans. © 1998 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Used by Permission.