Water's Edge 223 of 365 (Year 7) - a photo on Flickriver

            The site of Skokie Lagoons was previously a marsh, known by the Potawatomi name Chewbab Skokie ("Big Wet Prairie") or Skokie Marsh. The marsh was partially drained by local farmers, leaving a peat bog. During spring floods, it became a lake that inundated adjacent property and roads. Between 1933 and 1940, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) executed a plan to bring the waters under control. Several thousand workers moved four million yards of earth to recontour the land, creating the artificial lagoons of today. According to the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, "The massive effort was the largest CCC project in the nation."

High waters eroded the shoreline, filling the lagoons with sediment and damaging fish habitat. From 1995 to 1999, the Chicago Audubon Society began a program of shoreline restoration. Thousands of plants were added to the shoreline to help limit erosion. Once it was realized that most of the plants in the southern, downstream lagoons were lost during high water, restoration efforts were concentrated on the upstream lagoons. Efforts were made to clear invasive species such as garlic mustard and buckthorn, and replace them with native plants and grasses like goldenrod, tall coreopsis, compass plant, cup plant, aster, coneflower, switchgrass, rattlesnake masters, woodland brome and cinquefoil.

Taken in: United States / Illinois / Village of Glencoe (show map)

Taken on: July 16, 2020

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Sets appears in: • Project 365 2020

Groups appears in: • Flickr Nature - NO B/W, People, Structures etc • Photography Corner more » • Project 365 • Retired and Loving It! • Project Photo 365 • Shutter Sisters 365 • Fuji X Family • Images About Almost Anything • Everything & Everyone • Mirrorless Madness • Fujifilm X Passion • Fuji X-T3 • Photo-Phactory « less

Camera: Fujifilm X-T3, f/5.6, 1/70 sec, 55mm (=83mm), ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-T3
Lens:	XF55-200mmF3.5-4.8 R LM OIS
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.014 sec (1/70)
Focal Length:	55mm (35mm equivalent: 83mm)
ISO:	160
Exposure Bias:	+0.33 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Daylight
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9.3 (Macintosh)
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