Make sure that everyone knows that President Pierotti of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County is not telling the truth

I have been told to make sure that everyone knows that President Pierotti of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County is not telling the truth when he yells at me at a recent meeting of the FPD of DC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAi8tGrF7KI and charges amongst many baseless charges that I only go to meetings to make critical statements. As many know I have been working hard for decades to help protect the trees including the forest preserves, trails and trail users. For example I served as a volunteer as President of the IL Prairie Path not-for-profit corporation for over 7 years and on the organization's board of directors for 9. I am also the ongoing Voluntary Chairman of the Friends of the Great Western Trails. I founded the Friends of the GWTs group and have been leading it for 12 years to the benefit of the trail, trail users and surrounding communities.
In addition there were many different efforts across DuPage County where I participated in and help lead campaigns to protect our natural resources and quality of life in DuPage County. I am proud of all those successful efforts but there is one in particular that I really liked because it resulted in the preservation of a unique part of DuPage County. I started the campaign and called the parcel the "Special 8." The neighbors, trail users and the especially the IL Prairie Path group helped win the fight for the preservation of over 8 acres of unique forest in DuPage County. This property was saved from a proposed development of 46 town homes with a new street crossing on the IL Prairie Path in Glen Ellyn. This land is now the Glacial Ridge Forest Preserve of DuPage County. It is a unique and some say an important part of DuPage County because it was never developed and offers groupings of trees that they do not even have at the Morton Arboretum. Here are some news stories from Chicago Wilderness about this special and very successful effort. Check the Saving Kame article here http://www.chicagowilderness.org/CW_Archives/issues/winter2002/newswild.html
AND check out a report on the success of  my leadership in saving this parcel of land http://www.chicagowilderness.org/CW_Archives/issues/spring2005/news/dupagekame.html
Thank you again to all that helped us win and save this parcel!

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