Agencies
Services
Nature Preserve Area
3
County
Cook
Location And Access
The site is one of the five prairies located in southern Cook County that are collectively referred to as the Indian Boundary Prairies. It is within the Chicago Lake Plain Section of the Northeastern Morainal Natural Division. There is currently no public access.
Description
Markham Prairie – East Nature Preserve contains surviving remnants of the vast prairie that once extended along Lake Michigan in the Lake Plain Section of old Lake Chicago. The site represents the wetter end of a moisture gradient of dune and swale topography that extends through the Indian Boundary Prairies. Natural communities identified by the Illinois Natural Areas Inventory are high-quality mesic prairie and sedge meadow. Mesic prairie are ranked G2 or “imperiled globally’ by The Nature Conservancy.
Ownership
The Nature Conservancy
Dedicated
March 2012
Size
32 Acres
Topographic Quad
Harvey
For Further Information
Visit The Nature Conservancy Website or Contact the INPC
Illinois Nature Preserves Commission
One Natural Resources Way
Springfield, IL 62702
217-785-8686