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Federally protected areas. Illinois contains one national forest, the Shawnee National Forest, one national grassland, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, and several other sites administered by the National Park Service, including portions of National Trails. There are also National Wildlife Refuges.
Category:Protected areas of Illinois. Category. : Protected areas of Illinois. This category includes articles on protected areas within the U.S. state of Illinois. This includes federal, state, local and privately controlled/owned areas. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Protected areas of Illinois.
Protected areas of Pope County, Illinois (1 C, 10 P) Protected areas of Pulaski County, Illinois (3 P) Protected areas of Putnam County, Illinois (2 P) R.
The Illinois state park system began in 1908 with what is now Fort Massac State Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois, becoming the first park in a system encompassing over 60 parks and about the same number of recreational and wildlife areas. [1] The parks range from small day-use affairs to larger parks that boast everything from fancy lodges ...
Markham Prairie, the most recently designated NNL in Illinois. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The National Natural Landmarks (NNLs) in Illinois include 18 of the almost 600 such landmarks in the United States. They cover areas of geological, biological and historical importance, and include lakes, bogs, canyons and forests.
The Illinois Nature Preserves Commission (INPC) is a state organization, established by the Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act, to identify, protect, steward, and defend high quality natural areas in the state of Illinois. [1][2] Its mission is: [1] to assist private and public landowners in protecting high quality natural areas and ...
State Natural Areas, State Forests, State Fish & Wildlife Areas, and State Recreation Areas are all (if I understand correctly) treated as subtypes of State Park by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources; they are all (the categories, not necessarily every member of every category (see below)) placed on the list of State Parks at the IDNR ...
The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...