{"id":2345,"date":"2020-03-20T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T18:32:34","slug":"1m-awarded-to-wetlands-restoration-project-on-chicagos-southeast-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/2020\/03\/20\/1m-awarded-to-wetlands-restoration-project-on-chicagos-southeast-side\/","title":{"rendered":"$1M awarded to wetlands restoration project on Chicago\u2019s Southeast Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Several environmental organizations funded a restoration project for the Powderhorn Lake Forest Preserve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"1X979x\"><em>From the Chicago Sun-Times&#8211;March 17, 2020<\/em> &#8220;Over 100 acres of wetlands in southeast Chicago will be restored in a three-year, $1 million project, according to the environmental group Audubon Great Lakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"qT3Efk\">&#8220;Powderhorn Lake Forest Preserve, along the Illinois-Indiana state line, has prairie, woodland and wetland habitats. Powderhorn Lake and Wolf Lake were historically connected as part of a massive wetland in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cook County\u2019s Powderhorn Lake Forest Preserve project team was awarded the $1 million for the project by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Great Lakes Commission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more details from the Chicago Sun-Times story <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2020\/3\/17\/21173673\/1m-awarded-to-wetlands-restoration-project-on-chicagos-southeast-side\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several environmental organizations funded a restoration project for the Powderhorn Lake Forest Preserve. From the Chicago Sun-Times&#8211;March 17, 2020 &#8220;Over 100 acres of wetlands in southeast Chicago will be restored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,10,77],"tags":[137,136,138],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-news","category-news","category-restorationnewsmidwest","tag-chicago","tag-great-lakes","tag-wetlands-restoration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/midwestgreatlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}