Nelson Lake Marsh - Batavia

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More than 10,000 years ago, glaciers moving through Illinois produced a large depression in what is today the Kane County Forest Preserve District. Over time, the basin filled with Houghton muck, a soil consisting of organic deposits more than four feet thick in some places. The result is a unique marsh habitat which today provides a home to many species of rare and endangered flora and fauna. In 1981, 157 acres of this site were dedicated as Nelson Lake Marsh Nature Preserve.

 

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