Canadian Forestry Journal, November, 1919 



451 



What a City Can Do With Forest and Stream 



The Des Plaines River, flowing 

 through heavily wooded trad 

 of Chicago's municipal forest. 



An early spring scene in the new 

 forest. The ground is covered 

 with the blueberry plants. 



FOREST PLAYGROUND BUILT BY CIVIC GOVT. 



Written for the Forestry Journal by M. E. Bascom. 



Chicago's Beautiful Woodland Preserve, Created 



by Popular Vote, as a Civic Health 



Investment 



A magnificent domain of virgin forest, heav- 

 ily wooded river banks, hardly growth and 

 flower-starred marsh, is the invaluable heritage 

 of Chicago's two million and a half population, 

 lying at their doors and secured to them and 

 their posterity for ever under the forest preserve 

 law which allowed the Forest Preserve Com- 

 mission of Cook County to purchase and to care 

 for a forest preserve compnsmg at the present 

 time over 12,575 acres. The money was voted 



lands and for the necessary work in opening 

 them to the public. The Forest Preserve Com- 

 mission is entrusted with the selection of these 

 lands and with their proper protection and care. 

 The project is an old one, suggested many 

 years ago by certain nature loving citizens who 

 did not want to see the natural beauties of the 

 region destroyed by the inevitable growth of the 

 city. But many years went by before much 

 popular interest was aroused in the matter. 



at popular election to purchase these timber Great enthusiasm was aroused eventually, how- 



