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| 168 acres bought for conservation | |
| Apr 26, 2007 | |
| Barbara Szul | |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| Pertains to Nippersink Creek, Rush Creek, Kishwaukee River, Harvard, Hebron, Marengo | |
| A 49-acre property northeast of Harvard and a 119-acre site west of Marengo were purchased for nearly $1.7 million by the McHenry County Conservation District, officials said Wednesday. The district's board approved the deals this week. They will be paid for with grants from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Open Space Land Acquisition and Development program, spokeswoman Wendy Kummerer said. The Conservation District will pay $490,000 for 49 acres east of Rees Road and south of Hebron Road. The marshy grounds are critical to breeding for amphibians and contain headwaters for Nippersink Creek, home to endangered mussels, Kummerer said. The land also has the state's highest glaciated point, she said. "It's a hill in a series of hills formed by sand and gravel deposited by a glacier" that is 1,189 feet above sea level, she said. The property will add to the district's 204-acre oak savanna and wetland complex between Reese and Wright Roads that was purchased in October. The Marengo-area site, east of County Line Road and north of Illinois Highway 20, contains two-thirds of a mile of Rush Creek, which has diverse fish communities and flows into the Kishwaukee River, Kummerer said. The cost was $1.2 million. |
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