Ed Collins pointed out kames (glacial mounds), kettles (glacial holes), headwater streams, a hemi-marsh and glacial erratic (glacial rocks). He explained why bur oaks were on the hillside and white oaks farther down. “The beauty of this landscape is not like the Tetons, that screams at you; it is more subtle, but it is Midwestern, shaped by fire and ice,” said Collins, director of land preservation and natural resources of the McHenry County Conservation District. We drove around Tamarack Farms and connected sites Wednesday. Last week, The Conservation Fund, Illinois Audubon Society and Openlands announced the acquisition of the 985-acre Tamarack Farms in Richmond for Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge. The approved boundaries for Hackmatack in McHenry County and Wisconsin’s Walworth County is a 11,200-acre natural landscape.
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