Published by admin on Tue, 03/19/2024 - 10:15am
Further back in time than humans can remember, 18,000 years ago, this area was covered with glaciers. As they melted, forests took over the landscape. Then, about 8,300 years ago the climate became substantially warmer and drier. And within 500 to 800 years the forests in Illinois died out except for along the stream banks. Prairies took over the landscape.