While federal legislation to create a modern-day Civilian Conservation Corps inches its way through Congress, the Cook County Forest Preserve is moving full steam ahead with programs that deploy crews of youth and adults to tackle restoration and maintenance projects across the district’s acreage.
Nearly a dozen baby Blanding’s turtles a state-listed endangered species were recently released into the swampy waters of a Cook County forest preserve wetland.
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