Marshes moved for new tollway // Outlook good that wetlands will fight back

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: August 23, 1987| Author: Jim Ritter | Copyright information

Churchill Marsh, one of the last remnants of natural wetlands in Illinois, stood right in the path of the North-South Tollway in Du Page County.

But instead of paving over the marsh, road builders loaded up 355 truckloads of muck and hauled it five miles north to a protected site near Wood Dale.

No one knew whether it would work. No one had ever tried to move a marsh. But five months after the move, the transient marsh is thriving beyond all expectations. About 170 of the o...

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