Management of white-tailed deer in Chicago, Illinois forest preserves

Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Journal of Planning History ◽

10.1177/15385132211046219 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 153851322110462

Author(s):

Natalie B. Vena

Keyword(s):

Water Pollution ◽

Sewage Treatment ◽

Cook County ◽

Public Works ◽

Metropolitan Region ◽

The Public ◽

Staff Members ◽

American Cities ◽

Forest Preserves ◽

Forest Preserve

In 1916, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County began acquiring land to create a natural retreat for Chicagoans in that booming metropolitan region. Since district officials acquired many properties along county streams, water pollution soon interfered with their mission of creating an urban wilderness for recreational pleasure. To address the problem, in 1931, county leaders appointed the Clean Streams Advisory Committee that collaborated with forest preserve staff members to pressure polluters to clean-up their operations and to persuade enforcement agencies to prosecute ongoing offenders. They also lobbied the Public Works Administration to earmark New Deal funding for sewage treatment in Cook County. Their efforts suggest that early activism against water pollution in American cities emerged not only from efforts to ensure clean drinking water, but also struggles to protect nature. The interwar campaign to clean forest preserve streams anticipated the goals of the federal Clean Water Act (1972) to make all American waterways fishable and swimmable. The movement also preceded the burst of anti-pollution activism that historians have documented in U.S. suburbs after WWII and laid the groundwork for postwar efforts to mitigate water pollution in Cook County.

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Behavior and survival of white-tailed deer neonates in two suburban forest preserves

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z10-026 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 88 (5) ◽

pp. 487-495 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

B. P. Piccolo ◽

T. R. Van Deelen ◽

K. Hollis-Etter ◽

D. R. Etter ◽

R. E. Warner ◽

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Keyword(s):

Behavioral Change ◽

Population Biology ◽

Information Criterion ◽

Home Ranges ◽

Site Specific ◽

Lower Survival ◽

Fawn Survival ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

Forest Preserves

Neonatal survival influences growth of unhunted populations of suburban white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmerman, 1780)). Understanding the interaction of habitat and survival may inform conservation efforts and studies of life history of cervids at high density. We chose two forest preserves representative of forests in suburban Chicago. We radio-marked 56 neonates (1999–2001) to investigate mortality and habitat use. Through 1 July, 21 of 29 (72%) neonates and 6 of 22 (27%) died mostly because of predation by coyotes ( Canis latrans Say, 1823). Akaike’s information criterion suggested that optimal mark–recapture models of survival contained covariates reflecting differences by preserve and timing chosen to coincide with behavioral change from hiding to accompanying the doe. Survival was lower during early parturition (0.26–0.78) relative to the latter part (0.90–0.96). Early fawns (hiders) at one site had lower survival (0.26–0.29) than fawns at the other (0.78). Lower survival associated with larger home ranges, greater movement, and reduced understory cover, suggesting that hiding cover may mediate fawn survival in the presence of predators. Our study demonstrates spatial heterogeneity in population biology of suburban deer and suggests that site-specific differences may influence neonate survival in the face of coyote predation.

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Status of Flora in Lal Sohanra (Cholistan) Forest Preserves

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences ◽

10.3923/pjbs.2000.1838.1846 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 3 (11) ◽

pp. 1838-1846

Author(s):

M. Naeem . ◽

Salah-ud-Din Baber . ◽

M. Yasin Ashraf . ◽

A.R. Rao .

Keyword(s):

Forest Preserves

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Work Relief Labor in the Cook County Forest Preserves, 1931–1942

City of Lake and Prairie ◽

10.2307/j.ctv1595nc9.18 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 150-164

Author(s):

NATALIE BUMP VENA

Keyword(s):

Cook County ◽

Work Relief ◽

Forest Preserves

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The Role of Naturalness in Ecological Restoration

Nature and Culture ◽

10.3167/nc.2018.130203 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 232-252 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nicole M. Evans ◽

William P. Stewart

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Ecological Restoration ◽

Cook County ◽

Human Values ◽

Historical Evidence ◽

Culture Gap ◽

Ecological Science ◽

Forest Preserves

While ecological restoration may help bridge the nature-culture gap, restoration still holds relevant meanings for naturalness, as demonstrated in this case study of staff and volunteers in the Cook County Forest Preserves (CCFP) in Illinois, United States. Translating naturalness as an agency policy into restoration goals for sites, CCFP integrated historical evidence, ecological science, and human values. Naturalness was constructed as historical fidelity, a scientific designation to be objectively discovered, while the scales at which people interpreted historical fidelity, namely, species, communities, processes, and practices, were sites of value deliberation. The multiple renderings of naturalness can be a strength that provides flexibility to restore what is locally valued, constructing restoration projects that acknowledge, rather than attempt to overcome, the constructed nature of naturalness.

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