THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



SPRING AND SUMMER 1918 



Published by the 



ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 



(For the protection of wild birds) 



Proposed Forest Preserve Districts of Lake County 



In previous numbers of the Bulletin extended reference has been 

 made to the conservation work going on in Cook County whereby 

 already more than 12,000 acres of woodland and prairie and water- 

 course have been incorporated within forest preserve districts. The 

 spread of this movement adjoining into counties is now assured. Du- 

 Page County has a forest preserve district and has already acquired 

 important tracks of woodland along Salt Creek continuous with those 

 along the lower course of the same creek within the Forest Preserve 

 District of Cook County. Logically the forest preserve projects along 

 the DesPlaines River and the Skokie in Cook County should be ex- 

 tended northward along the same natural geographic units into Lake 

 County, and a program of this kind with a strong committee behind it is 

 developing in Lake County. Representatives from various portions of 

 the county have held conferences at Waukegan and an organization has 

 been perfected with \Y. Scott Keith of Waukegan as President and 

 Treasurer. Jens Jensen of Highland Park is Vice-President, Paul 

 Willis of Waukegan, Secretary, with E. L. Ryerson of Lake Forest as 

 Chairman of the Finance Committee. Attorneys E. L. Millard of 

 Highland Park, E. L. Clarke of Waukegan, and Paul MacGuffin of 

 Libertyville are counsel. 



Lake County is the northeasternmost county of Illinois, its eastern 

 boundary including thirty or more miles of shore line of Lake Michigan. 

 Because of the diversity of its geographic features its landscape is of 

 unusual interest. The Valparaiso morainic system occupies much of 

 the western half of the county and is characteristically undulating 

 upland with pronounced morainic expression in the form of knobs, 

 steep hills, kettle holes, sags and winding sloughs, etc. Within its 

 borders lie most of the many lakes whose fame is embodied in the 

 name given to the county. The accompanying map shows fifty of the 

 larger lakes. 



Other interesting geographical features of the county include the 

 valley of the DesPlaines River, the rolling upland between that river 

 and Lake Michigan, the shore line with the lake plain developed along 

 its northern portion, and the numerous ravines that intersect the high- 

 walled upland. Nature has done her part and only the financial 

 resources available and the willingness of the voters to permit of their 

 use condition the establishment of forest preserve districts rivaling in 



