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Rockford Park District Commissioner Jack Armstrong, a former Severson Dells Nature Center board member, said the Winnebago County Forest Preserve is neglecting a duty to fund nature education by ...
Four Lakes Forest Preserve started in 1924 as rearing ponds for the state fish hatchery system. ... In 1961 Winnebago County Forest Preserve District traded 193-acre Rock Cut Forest Preserve (one ...
The district is located in sections of Hancock, Winnebago, Worth and Cerro Gordo counties. It serves Forest City, Crystal Lake, Fertile, Leland, Woden, and the surrounding rural areas. [2] On July 1, 2013, the Woden–Crystal Lake Community School District consolidated into the Forest City district. [3]
The Winnebago County Forest Preserve District describes Pecatonica Wetlands as a riverine land parcel of "flood-plain forest, oxbow pond marshes and upland forest." The Forest Preserve District has enhanced the land parcel with fishing access points, 8.0 miles (12.9 km) of hiking trails, picnic areas with 22 picnic tables, and a 200-seat ...
The arboretum was established in 1910 as Rockford Nursery by landscape architect William Lincoln Taylor, who planted many of the arboretum's trees. The Klehm family purchased the nursery in 1968 and maintained it until 1985, when they donated the property to the Winnebago County Forest Preserve District as an arboretum.
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The Winnebago County Forest Preserve District operates and maintains Kishwaukee River Forest Preserve. This 145-acre (0.6 km 2 ) preserve was acquired by the district in 1927. Included in the preserve is canoe access, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of hiking trails, fishing access and a 30-acre (120,000 m 2 ) oak woods site.
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