Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area
Encyclopedia
Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park on 3103 acres (12.56 km²) in Marion County, Illinois
, United States
. It was named for Stephen Alfred Forbes
.
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It was named for Stephen Alfred Forbes
Stephen Alfred Forbes
Stephen Alfred Forbes was the first Chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, a founder of aquatic ecosystem science and a dominant figure in the rise of American ecology. His publications are striking for their merger of extensive field observations with conceptual insights...
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