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Little Box on the Prairie 2 LbNA #17822

Owner:FungusWoman
Plant date:Aug 31, 2005
Location:
City:Westchester
County:Cook
State:Illinois
Boxes:1
Found by: GoRilla
Last found:Sep 27, 2010
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Aug 31, 2005
Easy terrain, some sidewalks but old and irregular; well-trodden narrow paths. Okay for kids, but not strollers or bikes. Poison ivy is present. Wear long pants and good walking shoes. Sorry, pets are not allowed.

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When the French fur trappers arrived in the area that is now the state of Illinois, two thirds of the state was prairie. Today only one hundredth of a percent remains.

Just 13 miles from downtown Chicago lies of the richest and rarest black soil prairies left in the world. The 80 acre preserve, known as Wolf Road Prairie, had its beginnings about 8000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age. Recognized internationally for its floristic diversity and flourishing natural beauty, Wolf Road Prairie is a dedicated Illinois Nature Preserve and nominated National Natural Landmark. The preserve incorporates a complex of prairie, wetland, and savanna. Too wet to plow or graze extensively, Wolf Road Prairie survived over a century of settlement relatively unharmed. In the 1920’s, it was fated to become a housing development, and sidewalks were constructed in the southern half. The Great Depression, however, spared the prairie. Thus, its community of rare, threatened and endangered species survived miraculously to the present day.

(Taken from “Wolf Road Prairie – A Living History Museum” brochure published by the Save the Prairie Society)

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