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William W. Powers State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources on 580 acres (230 ha) in the Hegewisch community area of the City of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. [1]
Macon County Conservation District - 3,490 acres (14.1 km 2) McHenry County Conservation District - 24,000 acres (97 km 2) Putnam Country Conservation District - 1,100-acre (4.5 km 2) Rock Island Forest Preserve District - 2,529 acres (10.23 km 2) Vermilion County Conservation District - 6,600 acres (27 km 2)
The Forest Preserve District owns 22 sites containing high-quality conservation resources that have been designated as Illinois Nature Preserves ensuring increased management and protection. [12] The District's oldest nature center is in a preserved rural one-room schoolhouse built in 1886 and is located in the Palos Division. [13]
Mashpee adopted an open space conservation and recreation plan that was endorsed by the town Conservation Commission in 2009 and approved by the state Division of Conservation Services the same year.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that operates the state parks and state recreation areas, enforces the fishing and game laws of Illinois, regulates Illinois coal mines and other extractive industries, operates the Illinois State Museum system, and oversees scientific research into the soil, water, and mineral ...
The Illinois Land Conservation Act (Public Law 104-106) created the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, designated the transfer of 19,165 acres (7,756 ha) of land in Illinois from the U.S. Army to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The Illinois Land Conservation Act mandates that Midewin be managed to meet four primary objectives:
According to a report from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, a leak was discovered about 11 a.m. on March 29 at 3112 N. 3350 E. Road. This placed the leak about three-quarters of a mile ...
The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre (156 ha) botanical garden situated on nine islands in the northern Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens and five natural habitats including Mary Mix McDonald Woods, Barbara Brown Nature Reserve, Dixon Prairie, the Skokie River Corridor, and the Lakes and Shorelines.