West Branch Forest Preserve
About West Branch Forest Preserve
West Branch contains two lakes, wetlands, a tallgrass meadow, a wet prairie, an immature floodplain forest, and a rare fen and hosts a variety of reptiles, amphibians mammals, and birds, including grassland birds and migrating and nesting shorebirds.
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