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Lowden State Park was one of eleven state parks slated to close indefinitely on November 1, 2008, due to budget cuts by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. [7] After delay, which restored funding for some of the parks, a proposal to close seven state parks and a dozen state historic sites, including Lowden, went ahead on November 30, 2008. [8]
Lowden State Park; Lowden-Miller State Forest; S. Stillman's Run Battle Site; W. White Pines Forest State Park This page was last edited on 17 December 2016, at ...
For example, DeKalb County contains a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) forest preserve system [citation needed] and a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) state park (Shabbona Lake State Park); within DeKalb County, the DeKalb Park District in the City of DeKalb has a 700-acre (2.8 km 2) park system.
White Pines Forest State Park is located in what was once a part of the Sauk leader Black Hawk's territory and encompasses an area once known as White Pines Woods. [3] White Pines State Park nearly became an Illinois State Park as early as 1903, when the state established its first state park at Fort Massac. [4]
Lowden-Miller State Forest is a conservation area on 2,291 acres (927 ha) in Ogle County, Illinois, United States. [1] The state acquired a 1,186-acre (480 ha) parcel of land for the forest in 1992, and the remainder of the land was acquired in 1993.
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On August 7, 1951, Illinois governor Adlai E. Stevenson II signed a bill into law which transferred ownership of a 66-acre (27 ha) section of Lowden State Park to the college, now Northern Illinois University (NIU). [8] The land encompassed the former 15-acre (6.1 ha) site of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony and its buildings.