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Visitors often describe Terry McCaughey’s land just north of Deerfield as “heaven.”
He’s lived on the roughly 120-acre property for about 60 years and has spent those decades restoring the old farmland into a conservation oasis, filled with prairies, ponds and streams, trails, forests and plenty of wildlife, from sandhill cranes and deer to dragonflies and bats…