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FY 2007 Budget - Forest Preserve District of Cook County

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• Continue to participate in contract vegetation management including prescribed burns, herbicide,<br />

and brush removal<br />

• Resurface walkway at Maple Lake between parking lot and pier<br />

• Restore shoreline at River Trail Nature Center<br />

• Dredge Maple Lake<br />

• Restore Ravine at Ted Stone<br />

• Poplar Creek Restoration<br />

• Repair and pave 6 gravel parking lots<br />

• Design and prepare plans for new maintenance road at River Oaks Golf Course<br />

• Maintain Watchman Resident Houses<br />

• Continue maintenance <strong>of</strong> Whealan Pool; maintain plumbing and mechanical infrastructure and<br />

painting<br />

• Develop plans for new Cold Storage Building at Tinley Creek<br />

• Replace 55 gallon garbage containers with dumpsters at all picnic shelters<br />

• Install Bird Nesting Structures to provide habitat for threatened bird species.<br />

• Design and install grove signage prototype at Eggers Grove<br />

• Sign remaining canoe landings along Des Plaines River<br />

• To complete prescribed burns at Busse Woods, Poplar Creek Fen, Deer Grove, Cap Sauers, Little<br />

Red Schoolhouse, Maple Lake, Swallow Cliff and Cranberry Slough, for a total <strong>of</strong> 3,403 acres<br />

managed by prescribed burning<br />

Planning Projects<br />

• Continued planning <strong>of</strong> bicycle trail and equestrian trail systems including; Cal-Sag Trail, Tinley<br />

Creek Trail Crestwood Connection, Spring Lake multi-use, Orland Grassland, North Branch horse<br />

trail underpass and Thorn Creek bicycle trail/horse trail underpass<br />

• Continue in Intergovernmental Partnerships with Neighborspace, CMAP (NIPC)<br />

and Chicago Wilderness.<br />

Land Acquisition<br />

• Pursue grants, donations and other strategies for land acquisition. Assist the<br />

Legal department in acquisition <strong>of</strong> various properties <strong>District</strong>wide<br />

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