[BCNnet] 6 new 240 ft radio towers going up forest preserves

[Robbie Hunsinger]

After about an hour on the phone with many messages left, I have found 
out that there are not one but
6 new Radio Towers going up on Cook County Forest Preserve land.

The sites are

Sag Valley Division Headquarters
Poplar Creek Division Headquarters
Thorn Creek Division Headquarters
Skokie Division Headquarters
G W Dunn Golf Course
Crabtree preserve Watchman's resident- North of the 110ft Tower already 
there

These towers were given 50ft x 50 ft sites on each property for the 
building of the new Towers. There on sites with existing Forest 
Preserve buildings from what I was told.

The new towers are roughly 240- 250 ft tall.
I am still trying to find out specs on guy wires and lights.

These sites were approved at the Cook County Forest Preserve meeting 
dated Sept 5, 2002.

Several folks should try to go the the meeting this week with hard data 
on night time passerine deaths at lighted towers- there was a recent 
massacre I heard about- AND stats on waterfow and raptor  guyed wire 
collisions- and anything else we can think of.

Since ABC is litigating, perhaps they might have a paper on these specs 
that could be summarized at the meeting this week.

I don't know yet if I can go to the meeting.

Does anyone know the nature of the meeting and how to approach and 
comment on this already approved construction?
Is it on the agenda in some form?

I will post more when I  know more.

Robbie Hunsinger
Chicago Bird Collision Monitors