![]() ![]() The Forest Preserve District also maintains eleven public golf courses. In addition to owning and managing tens of thousands of acres of forest, meadow, and wetlands, both the Brookfield Zoo (managed by agreement with the Chicago Zoological Society) and the Chicago Botanic Gardens (managed by the Chicago Horticultural Society) are located on district land. To acquire… and hold lands… containing one or more natural forests or lands connecting such forests or parts thereof, for the purpose of protecting and preserving the flora, fauna and scenic beauties within such district, and to restore, restock, protect, and preserve the natural forests and said lands together with their flora and fauna, as nearly as may be, in their natural state and condition, for the purpose of the education, pleasure, and recreation of the public.Ī Cook County referendum required by the 1913 law was passed by voters in 1914, establishing the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, and the first Board meeting was held in February 1915. Finally in 1913, the State adopted a Forest Preserve Act that survived legal challenge. The Forest Preserve District Association was formed in 1911 and a new state law was adopted however, the courts declared the 1911 law unconstitutional. ![]() However, defects in the law caused it to be declared inoperable. In 1905, at the instigation of the Cook County Board of Commissioners and private nature groups partly guided by prominent landscape architect Jens Jensen, Illinois adopted a forest preserve act. While the Forest Preserve District as a unit of government and municipal corporation is legally separate from Cook County, the latter's board of commissioners, the county board's president, commissioners and clerk hold the same offices ex officio concurrently, making up the Forest Preserve District Board of Commissioners. The districts headquarters is located in River Forest near Harlem Avenue and Lake Street. They are administered by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, a special taxation district that crosses municipal boundaries. They do contain hiking, bicycling, and riding trails, as well as facilities for nature and group activities, and they are heavily used for picnicking. Most often being left more in their natural state, the Forest Preserves have a different purpose from urban parks also they generally do not contain organized recreational facilities such as tennis courts or softball diamonds. A herd of white-tailed deer in a Chicago Forest Preserve. ![]()
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