| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 1 | Brianna BIrman | |
| 2 | Sandra Laase | Given the existence of global warming, the greater Chicago metropolitan area should be planting more trees, not cutting them down,as is occurring in Cook County Forest Preserve (CCFP) and Chicago Park District sites. The practices of burning and herbiciding are also contraindicated. Clean air quality is not helped by "prescribed burns," nor by the prevalence of burning brush that I have personally observed on public lands by both staff and volunteers. Herbiciding increases the liability of CCFPD and CPD. I again have personally observed dangerous materials left unattended, inadequate signage on sites (e.g. almost unreadable signs with tiny print posted within the poisoned area and not at eye level ), no advance notice to adjacent residential communities (as in the CCFPD Guidelines). As stated in "Inconvenient Truth," changes will continue to occur; they may be sudden and in unpredictable ways. It is my opinion that "restoration" activites as a whole need to be re-evaluated in light of their promotion of global warming. |
| 3 | Laurie Wille | |
| 4 | Anonymous | |
| 5 | Kim Wendel | The woods and wildlife drew us to this unique area of Chicago. We enjoy the natural areas and the animals who live here; they were crucial in our decision to raise our children here. We oppose restoration practices, especially those done "covertly" without educating the public and without opening a dialogue among members of the community. The current land management practices that take place without informing the taxpayers are undemocratic and a detriment to ecological education. |
| 6 | Steve Livingston | |
| 7 | Anonymous | Its unreasonable to "restore" to European "presettlement " times--let us enjoy all existing trees /plants for the good they do in supplying oxygen, and fighting green house gases. Let us all ADAPT with the earth as life has done for millions of years on this earth. Adaptation and evolution should be 21st century mantras---do NOT kill living things in the name of "science." |
| 8 | Juanita Villarosa | |
| 9 | Chris Bochenski | |
| 10 | Robert J Schnetzler | |
| 11 | Mariela Diaz | |
| 12 | Rochelle Levin | |
| 13 | Hillery Kraus | stop killing deer........it is the reason we live where we do.......How inhumane! |
| 14 | Vicki Seglin | |
| 15 | Brian Mager | |
| 16 | Kavan Yee | |
| 17 | Carol Buechner | |
| 18 | Dora Buechner | |
| 19 | Edward Buechner | |
| 20 | Christopher F. Zubb | The dominant characteristics to which recent climate change have been attributed all result from human activity. Global changes to land surface, such as deforestization increase Global Warming. The city should plan to encourage clean air by planting more trees, not planning to destroy them. |
| 21 | Anonymous | |
| 22 | Meagan Hunt | |
| 23 | paul J. Zubb | Trees are what make areas so beautiful especially in the city of Chicago. |
| 24 | maria Zubb | |
| 25 | Beth Szafranski | |
| 26 | Geraldine Zubb | |
| 27 | Jen Hall | While I believe that prairie restoration - cutting down non-native species and returning Illinois' parks to their original oak savannahs - is important, the use of chemicals to achieve this goal is wrong. We are trying to preserve our future, and poisoning the air, water and soil with chemicals only hurts our community and Chicago's forest preserves. |
| 28 | Diane Rollinson | |
| 29 | Patricia A. Sullivan | Thank you for this petition. That restoration is not only a lie, it is highly illogical, cruel and destructive for years to come. They must stop what they are doing and planning to do to our forest preserves and natural wildlife areas, which we treasure as is. |
| 30 | Joy Greco-Yanez | |
| 31 | Mary Ellen Trenn-Mack | I cannot say it better than has been said above. |
| 32 | Karen Nimrouzi | I trust Nature more than any human imposition on our forests...let our forests evolve naturally! |
| 33 | Donna King | You want to restore anything stop building on every square inch of land! |
| 34 | Dawn Paskowicz | |
| 35 | Gretchen Chlebowski | |
| 36 | Anonymous | |
| 37 | Fred Zubb Jr | I would like to see the stopping of burning /pesticides and cutting down of trees. I would like to see a mortitorm placed on the Cook County Forrest Preserves that would ban burning / pesticides and the cutting down of trees for a long period of time. In the range of 20 - 30 years. |
| 38 | Matt Woodruff | |
| 39 | pam | |
| 40 | Anonymous | |
| 41 | Edward Schoeffler | Are we going to destroy North American Forests like they are doing in the Rain Forests of Brazil? Will our Green Belt be destroyed by developers and shopping malls? Future generations live in a dry desert/savannah? |
| 42 | Serene Gaynor | |
| 43 | Mazen Ghalayini | Please don't make such short sighted and buerocracy rich choices. Do the right thing and leave the parks and the forests alone and as beautiful as they are today. |
| 44 | Chris Johnson | |
| 45 | Anonymous | |
| 46 | Ken Hornback | When are the powers that be , going to stop the greed of development .
When does this small group of people
who are supposed to be listening to the people ,
that put there arrogance in office, going to stop coming into your neighborhood with there money making GREED [ They don't even live there ] going to listen and stop ???
AMERICA --PEOPLE -- STAND TALL. ...
OR SUCK CONCREET....DONT LET THESE POWERS DESCURAGE US.
VOTE- MAKE CALLS - TELL OTHERS. |
| 47 | Lori Van Dellen | |
| 48 | Anonymous | |
| 49 | Diane Cutinelli | Please, do not kill deer, we love animals plus burning is very dangerous for everyones health, no one should mess with Mother Nature! |
| 50 | Paul Zieba | |