The Lake County Forest Preserve must be magicians if they can put all that cement and steel into a 90-acre field that is now home to many wild creatures and not disturb the wildlife. The most prominent are the threatened sandhill cranes. In 2004 the IDNR [Illinois Department of Natural Resources] recommended they shut down a model airplane field that was harassing the cranes in their primary feeding ground, the west cornfield. This spring another pair was documented in the east cornfield in a small wetland. This wetland has orange LCFP markers protecting it as a wetland. This is exactly where they want to put the 15,000-seat stadium, an indoor stadium and warm-up arenas [“Nay They Say” by Ben Joravsky, July 6]. This wetland will have to be filled in in order to accomplish this.
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To see a map of the venue or the Tim Smith offer go to www.preservelakewood.org or www.votersforpreservation.org.
