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Illinois has a variety of protected areas, including over 123 state-protected areas, dozens of federally protected areas, hundreds of county-level and municipal park areas. Illinois also contains sites designated as internationally important protected areas.
This category includes articles on protected areas within the U.S. state of Illinois. This includes federal, state, local and privately controlled/owned areas. This includes federal, state, local and privately controlled/owned areas.
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 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.
The Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge is a 5,255-acre (21.27 km 2) national wildlife refuge located along the Illinois River in Cass County and Morgan County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The refuge is adjacent to Meredosia, Illinois, but is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from a headquarters located in Havana, Illinois. [1]
The Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge is located on the Illinois River in Mason County northeast of Havana, Illinois. It is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as one of the four Illinois River National Wildlife and Fish Refuges. The refuge consists of 4,388 acres (17.76 km 2) of Illinois River bottomland, nearly all of it wetland.
Here is an SVG locator, in Wikipedia-standard colors, that can be used with Infobox protected area. The template has the capability to add a locator dot to this base image without modifying it. For articles (such as a long trail or parkway) where a dot is not relevant, one can download this image and modify it.
Part of Horseshoe Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area. Illinois Beach Nature Preserve: 1980: Lake: State The site is a part of Illinois Beach State Park, and contains a wide range of savanna, prairie, wetland and beach ecosystems, as well as numerous endangered species.