ome notes on the newly-preserved Berkeley Prairie 
¥y Marion H. Cole 
October, 1968, after 
vapter of The Nature Cor 
photographs by William E. Sproat 
a dramatic fund-raising campaign, The Illinois 
‘servancy conveyed the deed to property known 
Highland Park Estates to the Forest Preserve of Lake County, lil. The 
est-commonly used name of the 17-acre tract js Berkeley Prairie. 
Plants found on the lower meadow and oak grove 
flood-plain and oak opening prairie, as well 
rubs native to the North Branch of the Chicago Ri 
Photographs of typical 
include species 
nler by William E. Sproat 
as deciduous trees and 
ver. 
species were taken during the 
of Highland Park. 
The gentle slope of 
last fall and 
the prairie—facing south and west—looks across 
river to what was a north-facing equ 
| 1956 when a subdivision replaced 
About 280 acres of | 
d for additional Lake 
some 10 years, but h 
eved to be necessary 
ivalent slope of heavy oak forest 
the woodland community. 
and north of Berkeley Prairie have been desig- 
County forest preserve land. It has been sought 
as yet to be purchased. This additional tract is 
tO properly protect the plants and animals of 
Prairie section, and the Lake-Cook Cha 
ds acquisition since 1966. 
. 
pter of IAS has worked to- 
RTANT READING: 
/egetation of Wisconsin” (Curtis), 
‘lin Anderson, 1954, U. of Wis., 
U. of Wisconsin Press, 1959, and, Ph.D. Thesis of 
Madison. 
Ntroduction to Ornithology’’ (Wallace), 1963, 2nd. Ed., 
rairie Plant Cultivation,’ 
“The Merton Arboretum, Lisle, {ff 
The MacMillian Co., New York. 
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