http://www.temporarytraveloffice.net/stories/tours.html An audio tour of a Southern Illinois Wildlife Refuge by Sarah Kanouse. Despite the sparkling clarity of Devil’s Kitchen Lake, the seasonal influx of wintering geese, and the hushed serenity of its wilderness area, this Southern Illinois National Wildlife Refuge is anything but unspoiled nature. The Refuge is the result of a half-century of economic development efforts directed at this sparsely populated, rural part of the state. Its three lakes were designed and built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, and the Refuge itself was established in 1947 on the site of a shuttered US Army munitions plant. Since the 1980s, it has been on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List—better known as Superfund—which outlines and monitors a clean-up process for the most severely contaminated sites in the United States. Rather than concealing the Refuge ’s resolutely cultural and political existence, this tour highlights it. Audio Tour agent@temporarytraveloffice.net An audio tour of a Southern Illinois Wildlife Refuge Despite the sparkling clarity of Devil’s Kitchen Lake, the seasonal influx of wintering geese, and the hushed serenity of its wilderness area, this Southern Illinois National Wildlife Refuge is anything but unspoiled nature. The Refuge is the result of a half-century of economic development efforts directed at this sparsely populated, rural part of the state. Its three lakes were designed and built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, and the Refuge itself was established in 1947 on the site of a shuttered US Army munitions plant. Since the 1980s, it has been on the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List—better known as Superfund—which outlines and monitors a clean-up process for the most severely contaminated sites in the United States. Rather than concealing the Refuge ’s resolutely cultural and political existence, this tour highlights it. 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