Excerpt from Proposed Park Areas in the State of Illinois: A Report With Recommendations
Although there still remains a great deal to be done in the way of complete surveys of the lands recommended, this report can be accepted as a general outline of such sec tions of Illinois as should be preserved for present and future generations. Practically all the lands mentioned in this report are of little or no agricultural value. They bring to us more of the spiritual side than the material. They represent Illinois as the white man found it - a dif ferent world from the man-made one - equally important in developing the cultural life of Illinois. They offer ref uge for native wild life and a place of escape for a while, at least, from the grind and cares of daily life.
Besides the areas described here, there are lands along the Little Vermilion, the Kaskaskia and the Wabash Rivers that should be preserved either for county or state reserva tions. The Ozark uplifts in Southern Illinois are better fitted for forest lands than agricultural, and a large sec tion of this region, outside the areas recommended for parks, should be acquired by the State for forests. In the Savanna region an interstate park might be established, taking in all the islands of the Mississippi, together with the bluffs and canyons of Illinois and Iowa. The islands will furnish camping sites for thousands, and as a bird preserve, this region would be equal to any in the middle West.
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