. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 5 area, the Waukegan Flats, the Skokie Marsh, the loop in the Fox River in the southwestern part of the county, and areas bordering upon the DesPlaines River for its entire course across the county from north to south. These projects are indicated upon the accompanying map though, of course, without any attempt at preciseness of location. A review of the projects proposed might properly begin with that of the DesPlaines River as being on the largest scale. The DesPlaines lies in a gently sloping valley beautifully diversifie
. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 5 area, the Waukegan Flats, the Skokie Marsh, the loop in the Fox River in the southwestern part of the county, and areas bordering upon the DesPlaines River for its entire course across the county from north to south. These projects are indicated upon the accompanying map though, of course, without any attempt at preciseness of location. A review of the projects proposed might properly begin with that of the DesPlaines River as being on the largest scale. The DesPlaines lies in a gently sloping valley beautifully diversified with woodland and meadow. The river has its source in Wisconsin in a flat swamp or slough where drainage is so imperfect that in wet weather part of the marsh discharges northward to Root River and part south to the DesPlaines. From this ill-defined divide the river flows south and southwrest a distance of one hundred and twenty miles and joins the Kankakee twelve miles below Joliet to form the Illinois River. Where it crosses the Wisconsin boundary into Lake County the river is six miles from the shore line of Lake Michigan. At the latitude of WTauke- gan it is five miles distant from the lake, and it crosses over the boundary into Cook County only eight miles from the shore. Plans already maturing look to the ultimate ownership by the county of a strip varying from one fourth to a half mile wide the entire length of its course within the county. This would insure the preservation of the pastoral beauty of the river, with forests opening out into prairie- like meadows and grassy flood plains dotted with hawthorne and wild. Photo by John Baird IT IS FITTING THAT IN A DEMOCRACY SUCH AS OURS TOINT OWNERSHIP OF THE BEAUTIFUL PARTS OF OUR COUNTRY SHOULD BE VESTED IN EACH CITIZEN. WE NEED WTLD BEAUTY FOR OUR SOUL AS MUCH AS WE NEED THE FERTILE PRAIRIES FOR OUR MATERIAL WELFARE.— Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digit
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