Hope is the thing with feathers


Stephen Mitten, S.J., and student Edgar Perez study the birds at Loyola’s rural campus to provide a baseline for restoration.


By ANASTASIA BUSIEK D Northern Cardinal


espite several degrees and years of experience that indicate otherwise, Stephen Mitten, S.J., doesn’t think of himself strictly as a scientist. “I see myself more as a naturalist,” he says.


“I’m an ambassador for the environment.” As spiritual director and resident ecology faculty at Loyola’s


Retreat and Ecology Campus, Fr. Mitten teaches several biology and conservation courses. But his real love is avian ecology. Last summer, he and student Edgar Perez took a census of the birds and their breeding grounds on the rural campus in Woodstock, Illinois. Perez was an intern at the campus last summer, and will


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