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Location Big River State Forest: Henderson County: Hidden Springs State Forest: Shelby County: Lowden-Miller State Forest: Ogle County: Sand Ridge State Forest: Mason County: Trail of Tears State Forest: Union County: Union County State Fish & Wildlife Area: Union County
The Shawnee National Forest is also the single largest publicly owned body of land in the state of Illinois. It is considered part of Southern Illinois, and is south of the St. Louis, Missouri, and Metro East areas, in area code 618. Portions of it are in the far south area of Illinois known as Little Egypt.
Sand Ridge State Forest is the largest area of sand-dominated plants managed by the state of Illinois. [1] A 2013 study of vascular plants found 141 non-native (exotic) species in the state forest. [1] Endemic species include the prickly pear cactus , that may be more familiar to Mexicans and residents of the U.S. Southwest. [12] [7] [6]
Garden of the Gods in the Shawnee National Forest. The Shawnee Hills are a region within the larger Interior Low Plateaus physiographic province located in southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and western Kentucky. [1] In Illinois it rests mainly in an east–west arc roughly following the outline of the southern end of the Illinois Basin.
This forest ranges from the Cascade Range to the Siskiyou Mountains, and the Rogue River drains over 75% of the forest's area. There are parts of eight wilderness areas in the forest as well as what may be the world's tallest pine tree, a ponderosa pine that is 268.35 ft (81.79 m) tall.
This category contains state forests in the U.S. state of Illinois. Pages in category "Illinois state forests" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Charles Mound [3] is a gentle, 1,235-foot (376 m) high hill located in Scales Mound Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States.It is 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the small town of Scales Mound, and 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Galena.
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