Soil salvaged during construction at Rockford’s Bell Bowl Prairie is once again sprouting rare flowers and grasses
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Violet wood sorrel, just inches tall, grows in a one-acre restoration plot in the Cedar Cliff Forest Preserve on June 1, 2023, in Stillman Valley, near Rockford.
The low-lying Illinois native with delicate, trumpet-shaped flowers is a sign of hope for those involved in a last-ditch effort to save some of the soil disturbed by a new road that will run through the heart of Rockford’s ancient Bell Bowl Prairie.
The loss in the battle over Bell Bowl was a major blow for environmentalists, who had argued that there was a way to meet the airport’s needs without sending a road through a high-quality 5-acre section of the land, one of the last remaining places in Illinois where prairie exists much as it did 8,000 years ago. Bell Bowl is home to uncommon plants, and a foraging ground for the federally endangered rusty patched bumblebee.
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