Posted on November 15, 2009 by quintascott
The Peabody River King State Fish and Wildlife Area
St. Clair County, Illinois
The Peabody River King State Fish and Wildlife Area is a twenty minute-drive from my house, a good place to get a handle on how energy extraction changes the landscape.
The Lower Kaskaskia River runs through an eroded till plain laid down by Illinoian glaciation [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2009 by quintascott
I was first drawn to the Kaskaskia when I noticed that wheat flourishes in its basin, a place where nineteenth century-town proprietors platted towns and built flour mills and churches to provide anchors for their communities.
I next noticed the Kaskaskia when I flew over its channelized lower reaches and noticed the cut off oxbows that [...]
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