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Lake Renwick Preserve
The Lake Renwick Preserve is an county forest preserve located in Will County, Illinois. It is the second largest county-owned nature preserve in Will County. The closest major town is Plainfield, Illinois. It is best known as a nesting location for herons and other wading birds.〔"Lake Renwick Heron Rookery", Forest Preserve District of Will County (FPDWC), accessed November 6, 2008.()〕
==Features==
Lake Renwick is an artificial lake created through the adaptive reuse of a network of former quarries from which aggregates were mined for concrete used by the greater Chicago area. After the quarries were closed in 1983, the areas of below-water-table elevation filled with water, and the resulting lakes were sold to the county forest preserve district and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources in 1990 for use as open space.〔"Into the Wild: Lake Renwick Heron Rookery", ''Chicago Wilderness'' (Spring 1998), accessed November 6, 2008.()〕
Lake Renwick, because of its location, depth, and the fertility of its fishery, is especially adapted to serve as a breeding location for wading birds. Unlike many Illinois lakes, this body of water has a gravel bottom, not mud. According to the Illinois Audubon Society, the heron rookery located within the lake is "by far the most valuable rookery in all of Illinois . . . a site of outstanding statewide significance."〔
Bird lovers have constructed a series of artificial nesting structures on a network of small islets within one of the lakes. The lake complex draws great blue herons, great egrets, black-crowned night herons, double-crested cormorants, and cattle egrets.〔〔"Lake Renwick Heron Rookery Nature Preserve", Illinois Department of Natural Resources, accessed November 6, 2008. ()〕
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