Cross Country Events
Check out the cross country trails. Look at the map and you will find that it covers a HUGE amount of the Forest Preserve.
Following the Olympics no one will be able to use the majority of the trails during cross country events and practice sessions.
There can be as many as 30-35 obstacles.
It will destroy the forest preserve!!
Pictures to give you an idea of what an Olympic Equestrian Arena and supporting facilities look like.
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cross country event pictures 
Imagine the arena, stables, cross country events, trailers, people, cars, noise, etc. We can kiss Lakewood forest good-bye.
It is incredible that the LCFPD states that the equestrian venue will not affect the environment.
It is an environmental fact that a great majority of species use their hearing to escape predators. The noise generated by use of the Olympic equestrian venue will put prey animals at a severe disadvantage, resulting in their reduced numbers.
The equestrian cross country course will disturb threatened tamarack trees, nesting and foraging grounds of threatened sandhill cranes, as well as areas inhabited by endangered black-crowned night herons, yellow-crowned night herons and henslow's sparrows.
Lake County, Illinois is rapidly developing. Open spaces are quickly being filled in. The last thing we need is for the lands we have set aside as forest preserves to suffer the same fate. It is the animals' last refuge in this area.
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