Climate change and the alarming trends of species extinction and habitat loss demand that conservation organizations think big. So The Land Conservancy of McHenry County stepped up its game.
Public and private entities have protected 1,000 acres of land within the creek’s watershed and Thompson Road Farm would add to that network, helping to filter and manage the water that eventually flows into the creek.
Climate change and the alarming trends of species extinction and habitat loss demand that conservation organizations, regardless of size, think bigger, she said. “See that rise near the road? That’ll be a small parking area for a loop trail that will come to a viewing platform,” she said. Ever driven past fields of corn or soybeans and noticed what seems to be a creek running through the land? That’s almost surely a drainage channel. Same for the ditches running alongside highways and back roads. This is how farmers turned Midwestern swamps into the nation’s bread basket.
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