Posts related to the Shawnee National Forest
Sierra Club is opposed to the Shawnee Parkway, a proposed multi-lane, high-speed highway to facilitate the trucking industry through a portion of southernmost Illinois. The negative impacts to the environment far outweigh any perceived advantages. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has invited the public to review and comment on the draft Purpose and Need… Continue reading Shawnee Parkway — New Name for a Decades-old Proposal in far Southern Illinois
The 754,942-acre Saline River watershed in far southeastern Illinois has gone from one of the most important historical and geographical features in the region to one of the most abused and under-appreciated watersheds in the entire state. Once a pristine river running through vast forested wetlands the Saline has been turned into an extensively channelized… Continue reading 21 Sierrans Float the Saline River
How ironic that during the Year of the Bat, the Shawnee National Forest would propose a land exchange in which the Forest Service would trade away a 384-acre tract of land with a known endangered bat species to Peabody Coal, Co. for a strip mine! An Indiana bat maternity roost was found on the parcel… Continue reading Stop the Swap–Go to Bat for the Bats
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