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The Ray Norbut State Fish and Wildlife Area is a 1,140-acre (460 ha) state park located near Griggsville in Pike County, Illinois. It borders on the Illinois River and is primarily made of steeply sloped bluffland that is part of the river's valley. Heavily wooded, this region is managed for whitetail deer hunting.
There is evidence that the Fox River valley near Silver Springs was populated by indigenous people near the end of the last ice age, 10–14,000 years ago. [1] The original 1,250 acres (510 ha) tract of land that became Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area was purchased by the state of Illinois in 1969, and has been open since January of that year.
Lake George State Forest should not be confused with the Lake George Forest, a separate 7,858-acre (3,180 ha) property to the immediate north which is jointly owned by Volusia County and the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD), [2] or the Lake George Conservation Area, a 11,973-acre (4,845 ha) site owned by the SJRWMD. [3]
Lake George is a lake in Hammond, Indiana, in the United States. Lake George is in the far northwest corner of Indiana, part of the Chicago metropolitan area. It sits between Wolf Lake to the west and Lake Michigan to the east. Lake George has a north and south basin divided by the Lake George Trail, a 3.1-mile (5.0 km) greenway.
Lake George National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge in Kidder County, North Dakota.It a privately owned property on Lake George (also known as Salt Lake) [1] near Streeter, North Dakota, with the FWS having refuge easement rights to control flooding, and is one of six easement refuges managed under Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge. [2]
Long Grove is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States, approximately 35 miles (56 km) away from and a northwest suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 census , the population was 8,366. [ 2 ] The village has strict building ordinances to preserve its "country atmosphere".
The "Site M" power plant would have burned high-sulfur Illinois coal. Due to the passage of the federal Clean Air Act, the use of Illinois coal for electrical power purposes became less economically attractive to Commonwealth Edison in the 1980s and 1990s. After holding the land in 1974-1993, the utility agreed to sell it to the state of Illinois.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources Newton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 1,775 acres (718 ha) in Jasper County , Illinois , United States. The park's grasslands are home to the largest of the three remaining greater prairie chicken flocks in Illinois.