Barring any last-minute court decisions, the Greater Rockford Airport Authority is set to bulldoze a portion of ancient Bell Bowl Prairie this week.
Construction on the Rockford Airport cargo expansion has come right to the edge of Bell Bowl Prairie.
According to the Natural Land Institute — longtime stewards of Bell Bowl Prairie until the airport severed ties — the airport has informed the organization’s lawyers that construction will begin Thursday, March 9.Natural Land Institute is now suing the FAA for authorizing the construction and plans to hold a rally on Wednesday.Bell Bowl Prairie is part of the airport’s nearly 3,000-acre property, but it predates the airport by several millennia, carved by the retreat of the last glaciers.
Included is permission to “take” — or destroy — plants such as the state-listed large-flowered beardtongue, plain’s sedge, cat’s claw and prairie dandelion. There’s no stated plan to save the plant’s roots for possible transplant elsewhere.
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