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Another beautiful but little known tract of primeval forest is the 
Lowell Woods near Dixon on Rock River. This has been the property 
of the City of Dixon for quite a number of years and was presented 
to the city by the family of Charles Russell Lowell, who bought it 
prior to the Civil War. The Lowell Woods contains over 200 acres of 
heavily timbered woodland with the underbrush untouched which 
makes it an ideal bird sanctuary and would be a wonderful place to visit 
during the spring bird migration. 

Photograph by Howard T. Middleton 
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A news item in April announced the eighth forest preserve purchase 
by Winnebago County. This tract of 169 acres is located on Kishwaukee 
Creek, one of the most beautiful of the smaller streams of Northern 
Illinois. It is rumored that a large tract of timber land in McHenry 
County near Antioch is being considered as an addition to the public 
sanctuaries and these automatically become bird refuges. The 
McHenry County land consists of about 4450 acres of contiguous land 
in the Fox River Valley. 
