Cook County Forest Preserve officials gathered Thursday to trumpet a $10 million Palos Preserves Trail and Restoration Project, helping to connect popular places such as the Swallow Cliff stairs to…
Becky Collings, senior resource ecologist for the Forest Preserves of Cook County, and Troy Showerman, resource project manager discuss the benefits of clearing invasive shrubs from the understory at Red Gate Woods in Willowbrook during a tour Thursday, April 25 showcasing work the county is doing in the Palos Preserves.
“Eventually the tavern was demolished and the Forest Preserves purchased this land, but the name stuck,” Collings said. It was the site of the former Palos International golf course which during World War II was acquired by the federal government and became the first site of Argonne National Laboratory.
“This is a very heavily used recreational site, in addition to its uniqueness from the ecology perspective,” he said. Collings said at roughly 12,000 acres, the Palos Preserves are second in size only to Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie as protected areas go. But a much greater percentage of Palos contains remnant natural communities than Midewin, where much of the land was heavily used over the last two centuries.Work to clear invasive honeysuckle shrubs from the understory at Red Gate Woods has created conditions where users can see through the trees.
“When the judge decided the case in favor of the county, he granted one of Caraher’s wishes that there be a monument there,” Busch said.
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